Video transcript: I really enjoyed 1536 at the Almeida Theatre.

It's a play about three women, all at various stages of relationships. One's unrequited. One is in a relationship they shouldn't be in, and one is about to get married.

And it follows them at a time when Anne Boleyn has just been arrested for treason by Henry VIII.

And the news is arriving to them about what's going on with that in dribs and drabs. And it's really interesting to see how that affects the people that they live with, the people in the town where they live.

Story: Luka (Jack Lowden) is an alcoholic, and his sponsor James (Martin Freeman), is helping him through the 12 steps. They start building up trust and a rapport, but is that enough for when they reach the fifth step, which is about confessing to things you've done wrong?

Video transcript:

I wanted to see The Fifth Step at Soho Place, having seen it up in Dundee for, well, three reasons.

One, I loved the play the first time around.

Two, it's got a slightly different cast. Sean Gilder is replaced by Martin Freeman. Jack Lowden is still still in it.

And three, it's being performed in the round. So it's it's a different performance space. The audience is all around. So I was very curious as to how it's going to translate.

The play is still as funny and as witty as it was when I saw it up in Dundee. It's not as dark as David Ireland's other plays, but there is a sharpness to the to the humour.

Outpatient, Park Theatre, written and performed by Harriet Madeley. Photo: Abi Mowbray

REVIEW: What would you do if you thought you'd been diagnosed with a life-limiting illness and you should probably already be dead?

Outpatient, written and performed by Harriet Madeley and a hit at the Edinburgh fringe, bursts onto the Park Theatre's Park90 stage for a London run - figuratively and literally.

Based partially on her real experience, Harriet Madeley plays Olive, a self-obsessed entertainment journalist who has questions about dying.

And, as no one likes to talk about dying, she decides she's going to interview terminally ill people for an article that will make her name as a journalist. 

Taking advantage of a hospital appointment about constipation, she sneaks into the palliative care ward to try and interview people. 

However, what she finds out about dying isn't quite what she bargained for as she's diagnosed with chronic liver disease, primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC).

L-R Rosa Robson and Olivia Forrest in Little Deaths, Theatre503. Photo: Johan Persson

Following a hit run at the Edinburgh Fringe Amy Powell Yeates' play Little Death arrives in London telling the story of a firm friends Debs (Rosa Robson) and Charlie (Olivia Forrest).

It's one of those friendships that starts at school, an intense friendship where they claim to know each other better than they know themselves - although there is just one intimate red line they can't cross. But can it survive life and adulthood?

We initially find Debs and Charlie in 1998, grieving and angry at hearing the news that Gerri has left the Spice Girls. The play then time-jumps at regular intervals, the date projected on the back wall, charting the journey of their friendship and connection as they grow up and their lives change.

The fun and fallouts of childhood become teen boy crushes, bras and periods. Plans for uni are formed but life happens around them influencing decisions and feelings in ways that perhaps weren't foreseen.

There is plenty of silliness and some bickering, but the solidity of their early friendship shows in the care they take over each other. They have each other's backs. To start with, at least.