Daniel Perks

Ali Alawad had his visa application rejected two weeks before Ali and Alpo was due to premiere in Finland. Alpo Aaltokoski had to continue alone, with just a projection for company.

Reeta Honkakoski spent time in a cult in the UK. The Desk is an allegory, alluding to that time. It's a hypnotic watch, if intentionally repetitive.

Amy Howerska: Serious Face attempts a heightened social commentary of living in a post-feminist society. But with all the technical hitches and audience hostility, it barely gets itself going.

The Professor is taking his final class, a variety of pop culture subjects to cram as much as possible into this swansong. But despite all the detail, this production has very little to say.

Lars von Trier's 1996 film Breaking The Waves has no underscore. So, while the subject matter is perfectly apt for yet another opera where a woman debases herself at the whims of a man, composer Missy Mazzoli has little to musically draw inspiration from.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 1996 album, Murder Ballads, tells of gruesome deaths born out of love. Gerry Smyth stitches these together into a pleasurable production.

Camille O'Sullivan dedicates her latest show entirely to the music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. She pours all of herself into this production. It pays off with spectacular success.

The Yorkshire Ripper was convicted of killing 13 women in the late 70s and early 80s. Olivia Hirst and David Byrne's The Incident Room opens the door to this five-year-long police investigation.

Mary Anning is just 12 years old when she finds an ichthyosaur skeleton on a Lyme Regis beach. It's the first find of its kind in the 1800s. Helen Eastman tells this forgotten story:

Daniel Ward's The Canary And The Crow narrates his experience of being a black boy in a white, middle class high school. But it's so much more than those teenage years.

An intense, unnerving and magnetic performance by Richard Gadd, as Baby Reindeer takes the audience through a journey of Gadd's long-term stalker.

Oli Forsyth expertly writes and directs Such Filthy F*cks, a show that questions why porn and porn addiction is still taboo.