theatre

Read our verbatim review of Do We Look Like Refugees?!, an extreme verbatim theatre telling of the surprisingly gentle and tender experiences of people displaced during the fighting in South Ossetia in 2008.

Our pick of the theatre, opera, dance and exhibitions that are opening in London this week

Ghosts, local stories, human fountains and memories were brought to weird life in Battersea Park last week.

The Almeida tops off an excellent season with James MacDonald’s faultless production and a first-rate ensemble cast that blows your socks off.

Questions, questions, questions.

The charity challenge that charmed with Charleston chutzpah.

Norwegian theatre, Dutch dance, Chinese art and French photography. Arts Ahead comes from all over the place this week.

The Trial of the Mariner at Hoxton Hall: see what we thought, of the Ship of Fools going to court, an eco-tale as unusual and mad as it is tall.

J B Priestly’s moral drama poses enough questions to entertain, but remains slightly detached from today’s audience

Charitable challenges don’t come much more madcap or musical than this.