A new stage production of Sense and Sensibility at the Rosemary Branch liberates its characters from distracting period trappings to reveal the wit and soul of the original novel

Survivor is a new visual and musical work by choreographer / composer Hofesh Shechter and sculptor Antony Gormley

This re-discovered drama of thrills and political tension is playing at the Arcola Theatre

This humorous adaptation of Beowulf, the epic Anglo-Saxon poem, is showing at the Rosemary Branch Theatre until 8 January 2012

Every Tuesday and Wednesday until Christmas at The Lion, Church Street, Stoke Newington

24 November – 23 December 2011, Arcola Theatre Dalston

Cinderella is at the Hackney Empire until 8 January 2012

The Hackney Citizen checks out two new site-specific Poe and Pinter-based performances

The Hackney Citizen meets the EastEnd Cabaret characters seeking to lure more adventurous theatregoers into the Arcola Tent

Church Street Theatre hosts the first UK performance of Varga Lllosa’s play, La Chunga