The Independent Recommends: The Five Best Plays
Mr Puntila and His Man Matti Albery Theatre
A well-deserved transfer for this Almeida hit. Comedy duo The Right Size are inspired casting for Brecht's witty fable about a split-personality landowner. To 9 Jan
Love Upon the Throne Comedy Theatre
The Charles and Diana story (well, up to the divorce) presented by the National Theatre of Brent. Hilarious and oddly touching. To 31 Jan
Martin Guerre West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
It's third time lucky for this much rewritten Boubil/Schonberg musical. In Conall Morrison's starkly involving production, it finally emerges as a tighter magnificent show. To 13 Feb
Angela Carter Cinderella Lyric, Hammersmith
This feast of inspired seasonal silliness and visual magic (right) by Angela Carter has lashings of drag and double entendres, plus the best mice to be found anywhere on a West End stage. To 9 Jan
A Month in the Country Swan Theatre, Stratford
Ireland's finest living dramatist, Brian Friel, adapts Turgenev's proto- Chekhovian comedy. To 20 Feb
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