Greeny News

The new shows at Chichester this week are Max Stafford-Clark's revival of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and Jonathan Church's production of Singin' in the Rain, with a great cast including Adam Cooper, Daniel Crossley and Scarlet Strallen. The Globe's rather excellent and speedy pared-down Hamlet is at Herstmonceux in East Sussex. Ranjit Bolt's version of The Marriage of Figaro (Beaumarchais's play, not Mozart's opera) opens at the Watermill near Newbury. Hull Truck's production of Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van moves into Oxford Playhouse, and also in Oxfordshire you can catch Giffords Circus with their new show inspired by Tolstoy's War and Peace. (Now that's what I call ambitious.) At Tackley Village Green next week and then touring through to September. In Watford the Imagine festival takes to the streets and includes a new version of Metis Arts' Third Ring Out in which the audience gets to manage an environmental disaster.