Plan your week's theatre: top tickets

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MondayJeff Young's lively Bright Phoenix continues to rise at the Everyman in Liverpool. It's the final week for Chris Thorpe's thoughtful, knotty and rewarding Confirmation at BAC. Gypsy with Imelda Staunton is unmissable at the Festival theatre in Chichester. Christopher Hampton translates Florian Zeller's The Father at the Ustinov in Bath.

TuesdaySondheim's Sweeney Todd is revived in a Tooting pie-and-mash shop, Harrington's, the oldest in London. Tasty. Clara Brennan's Edinburgh hit Spine, with the fabulous Rosie Wyatt, celebrates libraries at Soho. Greyscale's all-female version of Gogol's The Gamblers heads out on tour from Dundee Rep. Frantic Assembly's version of Othello stops off at Oxford Playhouse. Chris Goode's Longwave is at New Greenham Arts near Newbury tonight and also tours to Borden and Letchworth this week. Info here. Mark Bruce company's dance theatre piece Dracula is at the Curve in Leicester tonight and tomorrow and then heads to Theatre Ffwrnes in Lanelli on Saturday. The wonderful Grounded with Lucy Ellinson as a fighter pilot who has been grounded and now flies drones is at Clwyd Theatr Cymru tonight and tomorrow before it moves on to West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds for the rest of the week.

WednesdayLive Theatre's production of Wet House by Paddy Campbell, based on his experiences of working in a homeless shelter, is at Soho. Teatro Vivo's The Hunters Grimm takes to the streets of Deptford in a promenade piece after dark. Sue Glover's Bondagers about women living and working on boarders farms in the 19th century is revived at the Lyceum in Edinburgh.

ThursdayThomas Ostermeier's An Enemy of the People is at the Grand Opera House in Belfast as part of the Belfast festival at Queen's. Australian's Belvoir company from Sydney reimagines Ibsen's The Wild Duck at the Barbican. Robert Softley's If These Spasms Could Speak, exploring how we look at disabled bodies, is at BAC. Eileen Atkins takes the title role in the 17th-century domestic tragedy The Witch of Edmonton at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon. Head to the Arches in Glasgow for Rosana Cade's Lady Fingers and Empire Biscuits, about Indian attitudes to homosexuality.

Friday and the weekendMark Thomas's fantastic Cuckooed, about friendship, activism and betrayal, goes out on tour and is at the Point in Eastleigh tonight. Tonight and tomorrow, Contact in Manchester hosts Action Hero's very enjoyable Hokes Bluff. Babakas investigate our relationship with dads in Our Fathers at the North Wall in Oxford tonight. Campsite is a pop-up venue for family audiences in Cambridge this weekend. And there's more family-friendly performance over the weekend at the Juice festival in Newcastle and Gateshead.