Lyn Gardner

Miriam Battye’s Scenes with Girls (Royal Court Upstairs) is both exhilarating and frustrating. It is no more or less than what it says on the tin.

There is no doubt about it, Ian Rickson’s revival of Uncle Vanya in a new adaptation by Conor McPherson is quality stuff.

Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin (Lyttelton), set in 18th century Suffolk, begins with a startlingly staged scene in which we watch 12 women doing household chores.