Text of the day: “Being wrong about human behaviour half the time is our guiding star, Leo! It’s what’s telling us the study of the mind is not a science.”

More overviews of British new writing from the In-Yer-Face Theatre archive.

Alecky Blythe's verbatim play about the summer riots of 2011 is much more tedious than revealing

Tom Stoppard’s latest is a brilliant account of leftist politics and rock music in post-Communist Europe

Amelia Bullmore explores female friendship with a light touch, a lot of humour and a fair dollop of truth

Five-star revival of the classic play about love and loss in London’s gay community

Palestinian ShiberHur theatre company brings Kafka’s classic tale of devilish torture to life

In Ian McEwan’s bestselling novel, Saturday (2003), Henry, the brain-surgeon hero, finds himself with his family after an unpleasant incident: “There’s an air of unnatural fe...

Philip Ridley’s screamer, here given a site-specific revival, is brilliantly written and fully imagined

New American play about paedophiles and the internet is visually dazzling, but the writing is just a bit too nice

Celebrating this venue’s 50th birthday, this revival of Philip Ridley’s in-yer-face shock-fest is a great evening

Magnificent futuristic fantasy is a political fable that examines both the monarchy and the media

Richard Bean’s timely play about phone hacking and corrupt tabloids is fun but much too long