★★★★☆ It’s hard to watch Rita, Sue and Bob Too without thinking about the tragic premature death of playwright Andrea Dunbar. There is also a challenge in looking back at the world of Margaret Thatcher’s early 1980s Britain from the viewpoint of a Theresa May modern audience.

★★★★☆ In this highly charged and often hilarious one man show about an episode in his own life Mark Lockyer lets us into his head and allows us to watch the increasingly awful mess he was getting into.

★★★★☆ James Rowland’s show arrives from a successful debut at last year’s Edinburgh fringe and is probably best described as a true story about death and a friendship that can’t die. James has a passing resemblance to the blonde, bushy bearded behemoths of a Viking movie that he and his childhood friends adored . . .