In Geoff Sobelle’s Clown Show, virtuosic physical comedy slowly gives way to a bittersweet, apocalyptic portrait of America spiralling out of control.

In Babyface, Nick Tipa blends professional wrestling and physical theatre into a tender, astonishing coming-of-age study of childhood armour.

In Gawa Leung’s razor-sharp dark comedy HATER, artistic tokenism and actor scarcity ignite an absurd, audience-voted duel of toxic female rivalry.

Naked roller-skating, Andrew Lloyd Webber puppets, and sharp satire propel Sh!t Theatre’s Evita Too, a riotous cabaret reclaiming Isabel Perón.

Pounding Clubland anthems collide with Britain’s social care crisis in Amnesia, Kimberly Hart-Simpson’s buoyant, bruised study of working-class survival.