Inventive staging and meta storytelling charm, but repetition and structural looseness occasionally blunt the emotional impact.

A slick Hampstead premiere probes venture capital, medical breakthroughs and the uneasy line between profit and purpose in a swift tale packed with ideas.

Tim Foley’s haunted-house puzzle becomes a thrilling one-man fright fest, with George Naylor gripping throughout the clever theatrical trickery.

A fierce solo turn anchors this punchy drama about grief, grit and the fight for Olympic glory in Leytonstone’s shadow.

Alexi Kaye Campbell’s drama traces Mary Ann Evans’s rebellion, setting the future George Eliot against faith, family and convention.

Sharp, funny bathroom scenes shine at Soho Theatre, but thinly written boys and lopsided pacing drain energy from a hyped Gen Z sex comedy.