Victor Esses’ reflections on his elusive Lebanese-Italian relative are told with easy, open warmth but never quite knit together

Dressed as the creature, Hester Stefan Chillingworth live-dubs the 1931 movie and reframes the narrative

The conflict lasted two brutal decades. Now a people’s tribunal – of actors, human rights experts, witnesses and citizen judges – is staging a trial of the invasion. Tony Blair has been invited

Coached by Tom Parry, the comedy collective No Direction Home are bucking stereotypes about refugees and migrants – and thriving online during lockdown

Handle With Care, a three-week festival at Camden People’s theatre, aims to contest perceptions about millennials’ entitlement, fragility and offence-taking

From rapping and rambling to Victorian female boxers, via Liverpool’s Dream, Asian football casuals and a teenage dance troupe, here are some of our readers’ top shows of the year

Camden People’s Theatre, London
Inspired by Vladimir Nabokov, this patience-trying piece about a prisoner awaiting execution is full of lazy surrealism and tired games

From cast lists on the kitchen table to singalong rehearsals in the car, Hannah Maxwell grew up immersed in the family passion for amateur theatre. Now she’s putting on a show about it

Racheal Ofori is a British-Ghanaian millennial reckoning with sex, spirituality and herself in this refreshing one-woman show

From cabaret to a witty teenage odyssey, the Shoot the Breeze festival at Camden People’s theatre considers global warming, pollution and the environment in eye-catching ways