JOE GILL speaks to the Palestinian students in Gaza whose testimony is collected in a remarkable anthology

MARY CONWAY delights in a rarely performed comedy that recalls a Britain we remember in our bones

JEAN ROBERTS appreciates the way traditional panto can be remodelled into critique of the academy schools system

MARY CONWAY is riveted by a superbly crafted glimpse into the soul of a cast-off US star

MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama

STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away

GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic