This weekend, Theatre

John Buchan's adventurous spy novel (or Hitchcock's classic film) is adapted into this stage version by Patrick Barlow and features only four actors playing 139 roles between them.

• Directed by: James Dacre
• Written by: Amy Herzog

Modern-day hippie Leo turns up at his Communist grandmother's house late one night, and over the next month, they both infuriate and finally connect to each other. When Leo's old girlfriend also shows up, he and Granny find the line between growing up and growing old. Drama written by Amy Herzog.

• Written by: Robert Horn (book)

With an unforgettable rock score from Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown, 13 is a high-energy musical for all ages about discovering that cool is where you find it, and sometimes where you least expect it.

• Directed by: Maria Aitken
• Written by: Patrick Barlow

Patrick Barlow's ingenious adaptation of John Buchan's spy novel, in which four actors play 139 roles between them. Barlow's adaptation is heavily influenced by Hitchcock's 1935 film version. Directed by Maria Aitken.

• Written by: Victoria Wood

A musical based on Victoria Wood's 1984 series As Seen On TV, parodying early sitcoms by exaggerating their low production values. Its premise: the lives and loves of the staff of an antiques shop in the fictional town of Manchesterford.

It’s 1953 and Albert Einstein is slowly driving himself insane as he struggles to solve the unanswerable question: “Did I do the right thing?” A reunion with a friend soon becomes an explosive collision of opposing beliefs on the subject of evil, the winning of wars, and the construction of the world’s first weapon of…

Straight from the streets of Seattle, this festival is an exciting opportunity for audiences to witness seven brand new plays each day, written, rehearsed and performed in 24 hours.

• Written by: George Orwell

Sell A Door Theatre Company presents Matthew Dunster's adaptation of George Orwell's harrowing novel of oppression.

For ALL information and booking: http://www.souldome.com/#!live-performance/c1t4v Intimately stunning live music and dj sets, whilst immersed in 360' shape-shifting visuals. Relaxing on cushions with friends, this is more like a cosy high tech front room. Proudly featuring the Amazing Alison David, Creamy Carrie…

• Directed by: Sue Hamilton
• Written by: Bradford Ropes

This Tony and Olivier Award-winning song and dance extravaganza sets the glitz and glamour of Broadway against the backdrop of New York in the height of the Great Depression.

A sparkling comedy in which a persistent stalker lusts after the flirtatious wife of a friend and a would-be lothario claims that it is he alone who really loves her. Meanwhile her husband lies about his whereabouts in order to keep an illicit rendezvous with an old flame.

The musical duo gives their unique slant on the ups and downs of relationships before and after marriage. This gentle battle of the sexes is waged with weapons of song, some hats and all the technology of a blackboard.

A burlesque and comedy evening.

Hidden within a Laboratory three scientists set out to create a machine which can extract thoughts. Combining a raw, energised and wordy playfulness Manic Chord Theatre present a dark comic and physical tale.

Drama school sessions.

Meet the genius behind the übercoolest moustache in scientific history, in the show where Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity = Music Comedy². From the boys behind international smash-hit ‘The Origin of Species…’ (“Science has rarely been so fascinating and never so much fun” – Stage; “John Hinton is an absolute joy…

Tangram theatre presents an upbeat musical comedy based around the discoveries and theories of the science genius Albert Einstein.

It's 1953 and Albert Einstein is slowly driving himself insane as he struggles to solve the unanswerable question: 'Did I do the right thing?'

• Written by: Michael Green

A triple bill of Coarse Acting plays, defined as a 'closely observed imitation of stage disaster'.

• Directed by: Alexander Marshall
• Written by: Alexander Marshall

As he lies on the ground struggling for life, John Lennon finds himself in limbo, with his life flashing before him and having to confront Death's five stages, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Drama by Alexander Marshall, featuring Valentine Pelka as the late Beatle.