Plan your week's theatre: top tickets

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Monday

Make sure you catch both the Katie Mitchell/Simon Stephens' Cherry Orchard at the Young Vic, and the Scottsboro Boys musical at the Garrick. Florian Zeller's The Father at the Ustinov in Bath is heartbreaking. It's half term for many this week, and, when it comes to family shows, I like the sound of Match, inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story, which is at the Sherman in Cardiff from today and tours to Salisbury Playhouse later in the week. And there's the very fine revival of To Kill a Mockingbird at Hull New Theatre.

Tuesday

Tortoise and Hare, which involves the audience making a meal, at the Bikeshed in Exeter, sounds like fun for the very young. Chris Larner's An Instinct for Kindness, about his ex-wife's decision to travel to Switzerland to die, is very moving – it's at the North Wall in Oxford. David Rosenberg and Glen Neath's Fiction takes place in total darkness at the Junction in Cambridge. Robert Holman's challenging and beautiful Jonah and Otto is revived at the Park theatre in north London. Salvaged audio recordings form the basis of Dickie Beau's Camera Lucida at the Barbican Pit. "On surrender" is the theme of this year's Spill Festival, which begins in Ipswich today and has an amazing lineup, including Gob Squad, Ron Athey, Ray Lee, getinthebackofthevan and more. I'll be heading there later in the week.

Wednesday

It's your last chance to see Dylan Thomas's Adventures in the Skin Trade, about which I've heard good things. It's at the Torch tonight and at Blackwood Miners' Institute tomorrow. John Byrne's Colquhoun & MacBryde, celebrating art and love, is revived at the Tron in Glasgow. Peter Brook's staging of the revenge drama The Suit is at the Lyric, Belfast. Ben Power's stripped-down version of Romeo and Juliet for 8- 12-year-olds is at the NT. There's more half term fun at the Juice festival in Newcastle/Gateshead, where today Circus Central's Five Ring Circus appears in the David Almond-inspired The Fairground of Fantastic Fishy Feats.

Thursday

Bryony Lavery considers women on the frontline of the miners' strike in Queen Coal at Sheffield Crucible studio. The latest from DV8, John, a verbatim piece exploring one man's attempt to turn his life around, starts at the NT. Greyscale's all-female take on Gogol's The Gamblers heads to Northern Stage in Newcastle. Mick Martin's England Arise, about the pacifists who opposed the first world war, is at Kardomah 94 in Hull tonight and tomorrow before heading to Carriageworks in Leeds on Saturday. Eric and Little Ern is rough but entertaining and touching at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol.

Friday and the weekend

Theatre Delicatessen's Horror Souk, an evening of 10 immersive theatre pieces, starts at the Moor in Sheffield. Tom Stoppard's best play, Arcadia, is revived at Nottingham Playhouse. Amy Sharrocks' The Museum of Water is lovely and it's free and at the Grand Arcade in Cambridge on Saturday and Sunday. It's your last chance to see the surreal circus, Off, which is at the Guildhall, Portsmouth on Saturday. Christopher Brett Baily's searing This Is How We Die is at the Marlborough in Brighton on Saturday.