The week in theatre: Hamnet; You Bury Me; Pussycat in Memory of Darkness - review

Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Orange Tree; Finborough, LondonShakespeare's wife moves centre stage in Lolita Chakrabarti's pivotal adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet, while urgent productions from two small London theatres tackle recent history head on Hamnet, a play with a plague-driven plot, is the first opening at the Swan since the pandemic closure. Not since Matilda has there been such a female-centred production at the RSC. Rarely has there been a drama that looked so firmly into...