Plan your week’s theatre: top tickets

Monday
It’s your last chance this week for Hedda Gabler at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh. Blanche McIntyre’s revival of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia nears the end of its tour and is at Malvern Festival theatre all this week.
Tuesday
Enda Walsh’s highly anticipated new version of Roald Dahl’s The Twits is directed by John Tiffany at the Royal Court in London. Alison Carr’s Fat Alice explores the cracks that appear in an adulterous affair in the A Play, a Pie and a Pint season at the Traverse in Edinburgh. April de Angelis’s After Electra goes into London’s Tricycle theatre. Sue Glover’s The Straw Chair, a story of 18th-century rebellious wives, is touring to Ardross Community Hall in Ross-shire tonight.
Wednesday
Head to Glasgow and the start of the Behaviour festival where Gob Squad consider Western Society at CCA and Dead Centre’s densely rewarding Lippy is at the Citizens theatre. Wet House writer Paddy Campbell looks at the lives of children in care in Day of the Flymo at Live in Newcastle. Stewart Laing directs Titus Andronicus, set in a kitchen, at Dundee Rep from tonight. Graeae’s Blood Wedding is at the Traverse in Edinburgh. Penelope Retold is at Norwich Arts Centre tonight and then heads to Bristol’s Tobacco Factory tomorrow. Jonathan Miller’s revival of King Lear is at West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds from tonight. Ella Carmen Greenhill draws on personal experience for the family drama Plastic Figurines at Liverpool Playhouse Studio from tonight. Grief finds a voice in an unusual way in So It Goes at Shoreditch Town Hall.
Thursday
Cross the speeches of Margaret Thatcher with 1980s top 10 hits by female artists and you have The Lady’s Not for Walking Like an Egyptian at the Royal Exchange Studio in Manchester. Andrew Hilton directs Sheridan’s The School for Scandal for Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. Emlyn Williams’s The Light of Heart, about an elderly, alcoholic Shakespearean actor who gets a chance to play King Lear, gets a rare revival at Clwyd Theatr Cymru. Lots of things happening in Torbay over the next few days, where Doorstep Arts is showcasing work for children and adults including Bucket Club’s Lorraine and Alan, Spitz & Co’s Gloriator, PaddleBoat’s According to Arthur and more. Lewis Carroll gets an immersive makeover in Les Enfant Terribles’ Alice’s Adventures Underground at the Vaults from tonight.
Friday
Real-life stories of courage and ordinary people are explored in Chris Goode’s Stand which sets out on tour from the Old Fire Station in Oxford tonight. I’ve heard very good things about it. National Theatre of Scotland revives Iain Finlay Macleod’s Gaelic stage version of Compton MacKenzie’s Whisky Galore, touring and at the Sunart Centre, Strontian, tonight. Dark deeds and desires are explored in Invisible Circus’s Under the Dark Moon at Bristol Old Vic. King John, directed by James Dacre, opens at Temple Church in London before transferring to Northampton.
Saturday
John Ford’s 17th-century revenge drama, Love’s Sacrifice, is revived at the Swan in Stratford by the RSC. The waiting is over for Bugsy Malone, which starts previewing at the Lyric Hammersmith from tonight. Starting in Preston today is Derelict Sites, a terrific programme of work that takes place over the next week and features Greg Wohead, Drunken Chorus, Action Hero, Lowri Evans and more.