Text of the day: “This society wants you to believe you are weak.”

Sheer joy and excitement as Lee (‘Billy Elliot’) Hall adapts book about six convent girls, with miraculous results

New play about a deranged Ulster loyalist begins in hilarity and ends with some horrific violence

One from the archives: the turbulent life and times of a Critic adrift on the choppy waters of British New Writing

Text of the day: “While they’re trying to enforce something that’s supposed to make us us more unified, it’s making us feel more segregated.”

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

New climate change play is sadly more of a monotonous lecture than a spirited call to arms

Usually, naturalistic stagings are seen as low risk.

Yippie! American play deconstructs Dion Boucicault’s 1859 melodrama, The Octoroon, and then some!

DOA: Timely revival of Christopher Hampton’s satire on university intellectuals fails to come alive

Is the New Labour era ripe for nostalgia?

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

David Eldridge’s new one about the Essex working classes buzzes with ideas and with sympathy

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

Favourite stage direction: “The funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth II goes past.”

New drama about motherhood and surrogacy in India is a brilliant play of ideas, issues and feelings

Text of the day: “I think everybody gets fed up with the way the country’s run if I can be quite honest.”

Not even Anne-Marie Duff can save this epic but obscure new play about the Enclosures

Text of the day: “You kids wanna be more angry than you are; no one to vote for?”

Family drama about grief gets a surreal twist while exploring human relationships with imaginative flair

Jack Thorne’s account of local austerity politics is at its best when it pulls down its pants to expose excruciating emotions

New French play about globalisation and exploitation is powerful, but lacks full dramatic force

Text of the day: “I was thinking about Ross, Adele, and Bergsie.”

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

Text of the day: “We’re supposed to discuss the story.”

Text of the day: “You didn’t change the world, you bought it.”

New devised piece about poverty and temporary accommodation is extremely powerful, but also deeply flawed

New twist on the biblical story gets bogged down in a portentous, verbose and overblown production

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

The classic TV serial takes to the stage like a politician to a pay rise, but lags a bit behind reality

New Welsh monologue focuses on the sacrifices demanded from its young female heroine, but what are its politics?

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

Quote of the day: “Our working lives will be longer than those of our parents.”

Favourite stage direction: “The room has now filled with light.”

Enda Walsh’s play about religious mania is a real tour de force for actor Cillian Murphy

New drama about a transgender lesbian is not only hugely enjoyable, but also thought-provoking

Trio of monologues about suicidal masculinity roars its way through the theatre and burrows deep inside your mind

Travel back to the 1970s for a political docu-drama that’s high on circumstantial detail, but low on drama

Clever blend of two versions of Terence Rattigan’s 1944 play is both satisfying and a bit awkward

New drama about political and religious conflict in a Bradford family is powerfully emotional

New epic from Jerusalem playwright Jez Butterworth is a breathtaking, if heartless experience

New drama about addiction and acting is highly subjective, but also very powerful, informative and moving

Text of the day: “I’m happy to roll up my sleeves but who are you fighting?”

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

New play about an old Berliner and her family is consistently interesting and moving