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Pufferfish marks Nick Bruckman's debut as a playwright. Based on the real-life deeds of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the play explores the strong link between violence and sexuality that pushed him to take the life of 17 men in the 80s.

A closed casket arrives at the Leake Street Graffiti Tunnel. A couple of merry gravediggers beckon the crowd while they wait for the funeral director, who will lead the congregation to the Church of the Sturdy Virgin. The audience follow, 'somber and dignified', into a surreal universe where uncertainty reigns and death envelops kindly.

Euripides most famous and ruthless female character comes to life again at the hand of director Simon Stone and International Theatre Amsterdam after an award-winning run in the Dutch capital in 2014.

In a shabby NHS ward, Mr Stone (Andy de la Tour) is turning food down and slowly dying after a stroke. After a major fall-out years before, his sons come together to attempt to convince their father to stop withering away. The subsequent hour sees them getting at each other's throat refusing to loosen the grip on their own pride.

Molly loses her mum when she's 21. Actually, she knows where her mother is, she is inside a box at the crematorium. With razor-sharp humour and the cheek to go with it, Miss Fortunate is a personal journey through insecurity and grief to the acceptance of life's disruptions rooted in Molly O'Shea's real-life experience.

Emmy finds her life to be absurdly limiting. When she gets sacked by her boss, she takes the chance to set on a mission to find her hero: Amelia Earhart. The pilot has been missing for 81 years but our heroine is certain she must be somewhere.

After a European tour, Out of Chaos bring their celebrated Unmythable to The Vaults. Devised by the company on the lines of something Reduced Shakespeare Company might do and directed by Mike Tweddle & Paul O'Mahony, it celebrates Greek mythology by putting its stories together in a big pot luck.

A nightmarish scream anticipates the lights. A maid is standing over a bloodied corpse, fresh blood is soaking her arms up to her elbow and staining her crisp white apron.

A dressing room of a West End theatre. Narcissus is putting makeup on as she starts to talk to a therapist of sorts who's sitting, in her mind, in a corner.

When John Rolando fails to be able to get an instant erection on the set of a porn film, his life starts to fall apart and kicks off a curious experiment of meta-theatre.

Waitress is 32 years old and is still serving tables. She didn't plan out to stay in the service for this long, nor she enjoys the humiliation and stress it comes from it. Yet, she does it day after day, greeting customers and dealing with their every impossible request.

Teenager Nicolas (Laurie Kynaston) is going through a difficult phase. He used to be the happiest of kids but everything changed after his parents' divorce (Amanda Abbington and John Light) two years ago. He believes that moving in with his dad Pierre and his new girlfriend Sofia (Amaka Okafor), who have a newborn, might help but mental health and societal pressure take their toll on the whole family.

Michelle Zahner lands at VAULT Festival in a flurry of lycra, capes, masks, and different identities. Her first solo show, A Modern Guide to Heroism & Sidekickery takes the superhero trope and applies it to an everyday woman.

A Secretary of State for Health and Social Care requests a white doctor when her daughter is rushed to a hospital. A travel blogger posts a review which leads to the suicide of the venue's owner. The Head of Safeguarding of a prominent aid organisation urges a true apology from the CEO after an insincere one.

In 1928 Virginia Woolf explored her freedom of identity with her novel Orlando. Coming out of a fierce but heartbreaking affair with Vita Sackville-West, Woolf imagined a young Elizabethan boy who lives for centuries, meeting poets and kings, and delving into sexuality and gender.

Written and performed by Kate Radford and featuring a variety of disciplines, Drought tells the story of Caenis, a character from Ovid's Metamorphosis.

Nuala is a junior osteology archaeologist. She also suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Her life takes a turn when she discovers the remains of a young woman in an unmarked grave and the skull disappears.

ZU-UK finds a new home for their inventive Binaural Dinner Date. Previously hosted at Theatre Royal Stratford East in 2017, the experience is a hilariously intimate rollercoaster.

Aaron and Matty worship Ronnie and Reggie Kray, the criminals who meddled with celebrities and had East London under their thumb in the 60s. They mould their lives around the twins and strive to talk, walk, and dress like them.