Dave Fargnoli

Vivid visuals and macabre humour animate this Nancy Harris and Kimberley Rampersad’s modern reworking of Hans Christian Andersen’s grisly fairytale, starring Nikki Cheung, Dianne Pilkington and Sebastien Torkia

Warm performances smooth over the knotty moral debates in this revival of Rajiv Joseph’s bloody two-hander

Steve Coogan shines as an array of brilliantly absurd comic characters in Armando Iannucci and Sean Foley's faithful stage transposition of Stanley Kubrick’s anti-war masterpiece

Joseph Millson’s magnetic central performance drives this sweeping, ambitious two-part story of generational conflict and social change, adapted by Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan and directed by Josh Roche

Energetic rap music lifts this underwritten story of family and identity, told from a British-Pakistani perspective

Overwrought and tonally conflicted revival of Seán O’Casey’s classic starring Mark Rylance and Succession regular J Smith-Cameron, directed by Matthew Warchus

Elegant new staging of Nassim Soleimanpour’s challenging, cheekily subversive metatheatrical experiment

With direction from Christopher Haydon, these heartfelt performances provide a powerful emotional kick in this new adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s tearjerker about medical ethics and doomed youth

Timely new play interrogates the tarnished legacy of celebrated author Roald Dahl

Meandering, downbeat story of immigration, workplace monotony and fading optimism from Arzhang Pezhman