This time, I have time travelled with my companion Lia Ghilardi, crossing four hundred years of British theatre history.

Text of the day: “On my sixteenth birthday my father erected a fourteen-foot crucifix in our living room, despite the fact that the living room is only eight foot tall.”

New short play about sex and shame is partly a campaign tool and partly a plea for openness and understanding

The poet laureate’s verbatim play about Brexit sinks into journalistic and untheatrical banality

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

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

New play about refugee-camp life in Calais is a gruelling docu-drama, powerful but oh so middle class!

Text of the day: “So I made a decision.”

The death of David Bowie provokes the Critic to take a trip down the motorways and side alleys of memory

Inua Ellams’s new play about fatherhood and masculinity has a vigorously enjoyable global reach

Mike Bartlett explores Englishness with enormous metaphoric zeal — and only a touch of preposterousness

New show about English nationalism is timely, but completely undermined by its musical form

Quote of the day: “Today I am comfortable enough, and sometimes uncomfortable enough, to be myself on stage, in all its mess and glory.”

Quote of the day: “I don’t want to hear somebody’s arguments about politics, thank you.”

Overwhelmingly powerful new play about motherhood and psychological collapse: Lesley Sharp amazes

Favourite stage direction: “The actors should consume food when it says they eat.”

Text of the day: “The British are more decent than you think.”

The Revolution and Resistance season kicks off in style at the Royal Court with this wonderful piece of absurdist genius

New drama about middle-class families and climate change has more ideas and symbols than credible humanity

Text of the day: “The night starts planning itself, really.”

The longest-running play in world history is in good shape, despite the lackluster and mechanical cast

David Tennant charms and excites in Patrick Marber’s energetically contemporary rewrite of Molière

Thrillingly epic account of a defining American institution delights in three superb performances

In the Brexit era, this site-specific revival of Agatha Christie’s 1953 courtroom drama works like a treat

New play about globalisation offers a rare, but thoroughly fascinating, view from India

Explore the work of a handful of British theatre’s brightest and most exciting writing talents

Text of the day: “Nobody see you, nobody hear you.”

Arinzé Kene’s one-man show sparkles with critical know-how, but can’t quite disguise its postmodern thinness

New play about sex and intimacy has the ability to make you cringe in embarrassed self-recognition

The Critic releases a howl of anguish as he goes against the will of the people

Hugely ambitious and deeply felt global Asian epic about love, marriage and migration doesn’t quite work

Unsuccessful West End outing for Dawn King’s intriguing and evocative 2011 dystopian chiller

New play about the Northern Irish prison is lite on politics, but strong on Motown music

Censorship appears to be simple, but is actually quite complicated.

New play examines the poverty of everyday life but lacks the courage of its own convictions

Remarkable rediscovery by this ever-enterprising venue is a well-crafted and elegantly written curiosity

American political thriller about the Rwandan genocide of 1994 is morally complex and theatrically exciting

New play about the troubled masculinity of fathers and sons is very hard to stomach, but impossible to forget

New drama about the downfall of Margaret Thatcher is theatrically exciting and immensely enjoyable

Text of the day: “Everything here is beautiful.”

Text of the day: “Like you said.”