Not Talking - a taut drama by Mike Bartlett about what we don't talk about. Sexual abuse, miscarriage, illegitimate love child, shame.

Royal families in distress. Three tribes jostling for power. Dodgy deals with potions. Sleeping Beauty at Southwick Barn gave us panto with style.

Charles Dickens' classic story 'A Christmas Carol' came to The Barn Theatre with an edgy political interpretation highlighting poverty and injustice.

Two tribes in a culture clash between Hollywood and rural Ireland in Marie Jones's sell-out play at Brighton Little Theatre.

A comedic version of the Odyssey, with absurd physical and farcical theatre suitable for adults and kids. Greek mythology in an open-air theatre.

A crazy mad hurtle through 37 Shakespearen plays with rap, drag and audience participation.

Cut down version of Shakespeare's comedy of misrecognition, disguise and farce. Three performers with manic hat changes and cool banjo.

Activists protesting against fossil fuels occupy an oil rig in this exciting collaboration between Unmasked Theatre and artists' collective Rising Tides.

Twelfth Night at Brighton's Curzon Theatre is set during WW1, but this comedy of fluid identities is curiously modern. More than a comedy. See it twice.

Storytelling by Brighton-based solo performer, Jon Mason. This brings together myths and tales of war, invasion and love. Wildly ambitious and exuberant.

Horror, whodunnit or psychological thriller? Check out The Haunting of Hill House – based on Shirley Jackson's gothic horror thriller.

A stormy night in a mansion during the communist witch hunts. This whodunnit is full of tomfoolery and real drama. McCarthy wouldn't like it.

Magic outdoors drama by This Is My Theatre. Classic story for children and adults. Cajon, folkish chants, neat props. Touring the south over the summer.

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov at new Brighton theatre venue: Curzon Theatre in Kemptown. Robert Tremayn directs. Lively, serious and intimate.

One woman playing every role in William Shakespeare's silly but serious gender-bending play: 12 characters, 60 minutes and 7,500 words!

One-woman stand-up comedy at Brighton Fringe. Seriously funny. Trauma and frivolity. Blokes should not wear socks with sandals.

Themes of racism, gender and disability are explored in Shakespeare's Tempest, performed by Sussex-based This is My Theatre at Preston Old Church.

Rebel Boob brings immersive and balletic theatre to Brighton Fringe in a show that explores the lives of women affected by breast cancer.

'You' is excellent physical theatre. Five stars. See it twice! If you don’t get a lump in your throat, or a tear in your eye at the end, you should stick with PlayStation.

One-woman, one-act drama from Elsa Courvreur. Digital totalitarianism in any language. A black stage. Edgy taut theatre at the Rialto. Adult content.

A postmodern pantomime with an unrelaible narrator. Outdoors with comedy, dance, camp actors, plenty of fun. On two levels: laughs for kids and jokes for adults

Macbeth in Brighton. One-act play with Scottish Gaelic sounds by This Is My Theatre. Power, ambition, murder, blood. The woods are moving.

This one-person, one-act play is giddy, funny and seriously entertaining. An odyssey through the madness of corporate pressure on our mental health.

This Brighton Fringe psychodrama about caravanning in Ireland is first-class physical theatre that follows in the tradition of Pinter, Beckett and Berkoff.

The Spirit of Woodstock comes to Brighton and Hove in a one-person show that gives verbatim accounts of the music, politics and life of the 60s.

Witch Hunt's political satire and bawdy slapstick weaves together a hilarious but jolting feminist fairytale as part of The Old Market's Reigning Women season.

Human cloning. Gail Louw's adaption of David Daniel's book. Theatre that explores complex social, moral and scientific issues. Writing and acting of distinction.

Hollingdean Skatepark is reimagined as a battleground for gang rivalry in a brilliant youth version Shakespeare's tragedy.

What do you do when the director backs out at the last minute? Four actors deconstruct theatre in this subversively funny Brighton Fringe show.

Two women meet with a mission. Site-specific, outdoor, physical theatre in a tent. Produced by Dogma Theatre Company for Brighton Fringe. Tension and laughs.

Brighton Fringe brings the Russian classic Tolstoy novella and sets it in contemporary England - putting angst, authenticity and avoidance under the spotlight.

Feeling forgetful? Are they stealing your watch? A play about memory and personality. Dementia enacted with humour and sensitivity.

Glasgow's FK Alexander scrapes and stamps on stage, with unnerving percussion. It's performance art exploring love and lovelessness in recovery.

Two women in an adapted tale of a Sussex folktale from the 19th century. A tale of wisdom, Wicca and persecution. Top class theatre.

Theatre as comedy, or comedy as therapy? La La's comedic show about group therapy hit most of the right beats at Rialto Theatre.

What if placebos really work? Seven dancers backed by sounds from viola to electronica. Artists collaborate with scientists in a sinister dance experiment.

A professional woman, happily married, wonderful children. It all goes wrong amid plenty of laughs. No-one is happy now. Great theatre.

Open air theatre in Brighton with Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. Accessible. Tight acting. Mythic set. Scottish Gaelic music. Beautifully enacted.

Theatre, storytelling, historical reconstruction and political education about Romany people's history and the racism Gypsies and Travellers face today.

High-class storytelling. Massively compelling. Peace and justice and falling in love. Multiple stories. Live guitar and sax.

Lenin and revolution today. Agitprop and personal testimony from young people about change. Audience participation. Drama between Brecht and Boal.

The Profumo affair as Shakespearean romantic tragedy. This crafty reworking has it all: politics, love, sex and song. Plus a Conservative government on the rocks.

This is Kafka's Metamorphosis from the women's perspective. Classic writing, exquisite acting and a spellbound audience. It's great theatre.

A showcase of short drama from Andrew Allen at Cast Iron Theatre. Comedy and tragedy. Pinteresque. Made in Brighton.

A one-woman show drawing on Jewish British humour. It's comedy, stand up, and voracious storytelling.

Our digital lives explored through immersive theatre, via fake news and invented personalities. Wet Picnic brought tough questions about digital mass hysteria to The Old Market.

'Dracula The Bloody Truth' is horrific theatre. A Transylvanian spoof that mixes farce and slapstick into Dracula's tale. Faultless bad acting for comic perfection.

Women in war. Women in resistance. A people facing destruction. Post-nuclear. Greek tragedy in the 21st century.

Theatre in your own front room. A man with a can. Becoming a star. Graffiti and the meaning of life.

Multi-media theatre, art-film, modern dance, audience questions. Indelible selfies. The right to be forgotten. Gritty and beautiful. Take your phone.

Electronica meets Greek tragedy in a northern town. Gig and drama mash-up by local group. Woman leads on revenge, betrayal and taboo. Original soundtrack.

Physical, operatic, tragic theatre. Queer eye candy. A story of the pain, vulnerability and power of a self-deconstructing Sissy.

Staying clean. Women with a passion for jokes. Theatre that's serious and surreal. Magical realism mixing joy with death.

A crazy narrator takes you on decade-hopping trip through the lives of terrace residents in this new immersive theatre show on Brighton beach.

Four women and four different worlds, all bound together by lies. This dazzling one act play is seriously funny.