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Tom Basden’s new adaptation of the Italian classic brings in dodgy selfies, WhatsApp groups and the lord chief justice in a furious but funny broadside against police malpractice

Inua Ellams updates the Sophoclean drama into a beguiling piece about faith and prejudice, and casts a suspicious eye at politicians who betray their own communities

Inua Ellams adaptation nods to Shamima Begum, stop and search, Prevent programme and police surveillance

Horse-Play at Shakespeare’s Globe and I, Joan at Riverside studios take us from a sex dungeon to 15th-century France

The Globe’s much-publicised production of Charlie Josephine’s new play is no gender studies lecture but a rousing piece of theatre

I, Joan has become the year’s most controversial play before it has even opened. There’s no need for alarm, says its writer

Vinay Patel was seven years old when he first attempted to put an epic science-fiction story on stage. Sadly for the acclaimed playwright and screenwriter, he spent so much time putting up the elaborate tinfoil set during the school assembly that his allotted time ran out and he was unceremoniously…

The ‘dinosaur’ generation is put on trial in Dawn King’s near-future new play, graced by some nicely nuanced performances from its youthful cast

In a near-future world on fire, a jury of 12 young people listen to testimony from the ‘dinosaur’ generation

Dawn King’s new play at the Donmar imagines a reckoning for environmental chaos, presided over by the kids who inherit the mess. We join the writer and cast, including stars of Heartstopper, in rehearsal

The self-described ‘wobbly’ comedian is returning to her first love, acting, with a hard-hitting play about the collision of disability and austerity