FIVE BEST Plays

Major Barbara

(NT: OLIVIER, LONDON)

Nicholas Hytner's incisive revival revels in the argumentative energy of Shaw's satirical drama. Simon Russell Beale is cast against type as the indomitable arms tycoon.

(020-7452 3000) to Thur

That Face

(DUKE OF YORKS, LONDON)

Lindsay Duncan stars in a razor-sharp dissection of a dysfunctional upper-middle-class family that achieves a rare balance of raw emotion and knowing black comedy.

(020-8544 7404) to Sat

Relocated

(ROYAL COURT, LONDON)

The writer-director Anthony Neilson's tense, scary and enigmatic piece deals with our worst anxieties about child abduction.

(020-7565 5000) to Sat

Brief Encounter

(CINEWORLD HAYMARKET, LONDON)

Kneehigh's highly imaginative mixed-media adaptation of the classic movie is an artful straddling of stage and screen.

(08712 301 562) to 19 Oct

Rosmersholm

(ALMEIDA THEATRE, LONDON)

In Ibsen's rarely performed play, the psychoanalytic and the political are arrestingly intertwined. Anthony Page's production is lucid and compelling.

(020-7359 4404) to Sat

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