Don't rush to this if you want a jolly night out, but do if you want to be challenged and engage with life at its most bleak and most funny. Don't see this if you like a narrative that moves from A to Z with no diversions, but do see it if you are interested in theatre that explores the failure of storytelling. Ridiculusmus is no ordinary company, and this gruelling two-hander, set in the sauna of a Bangkok spa, features two repulsive naked German men, an apparent rent boy turned lawyer and a jaded journalist, who swap stories of sex, celebrity and genocide. But who, if anyone, is telling the truth and what happens to our humanity when our stories fail us?
Axis Arts Centre, Crewe, Tue; The Door, Birmingham Rep, Wed to 7 Nov
Lyn Gardner
Everyman, Taunton
Everyman, dating from an unknown time in the late 15th or early 16th century and written by an unknown author, is one of the best surviving examples of the Morality plays, the allegorical dramas popular in medieval Europe which featured the personified vices and virtues in a