Recommended by Christine Foster

This piece starts with a fizz and keeps on fizzing. The dialogue is brisk and natural while the premise is delightfully absurd - somehow an entire school is caught up in a cross between the Truman Show and a Twilight Zone episode. There is a strong moral thrust, too, though it's never really clear what interactions are real, and it doesn't matter. Just relax and enjoy. Really intriguing.

A delightful salute to "Private Lives" but entirely worthy in its own right (write!). The dialogue sparkles and the intriguing characters perform a fascinating pas de deux, delivering many smiles for the audience along the way.

'Sex changes things' and 'we're all a walking bundle of psychological scars' are just two of the perceptive lines in this thought provoking piece about a socially mismatched (almost) senior couple. Maeve and Rob are likeable, vulnerable characters and their dialogue is as natural as their revelation of personal traumas that prove you can't live a full life without events that shake you to the core.

'All feelings are good. Including sadness'. Or so Charlotte tells the little daughter of her mentor in Brussels, a man she has come to love but can never have. O'Grady's is an elegant, insightful play about the inner life of the author of Jane Eyre and how she came to cope with her loneliness, her lack of life experience and her blighted opportunities with dignity and selflessness. The characters are warmly and delightfully drawn and the whole play is richly, if sadly, satisfying.

Really fun. I giggled all through Dylan's wondrous lack of boundaries and impulsive chatter as he digs himself deeper into what should be social hell, and then miraculously isn't. Or is his lack of eyebrows really giving him deep intuition? A warm-hearted and uplifting job interview if there ever was one.

A simple social game reveals the misunderstandings as well as the past and present passions percolating in the hearts of a group of seniors with history. This short play is of full of surprises and well crafted twists that make us care about the fully rounded characters, their present choices and their shifting futures.

A timely piece about re-examining how we spend our days and weeks which turn so quickly into years. And about not giving up when it's time to re-set priorities. A loving tribute to couplehood.

A Messenger of Death with a mission - but is it to right a past wrong or to ease his own tedious After-Life duties? This is a brilliant two-hander that twists myth, personal history, self interest and fate in equal hilarious measure. Huge fun for actors and audience alike. Loved it.

Likable, philosophical crooks are a great British tradition, as these two prove as they spar with each other and reference old films about impressive heists while planning a real one. Or are things not quite what they seem? Great dialogue and a satisfying twist.

A short play that makes the audience do the work to figure out the real relationship between an aging mother and daughter. It's an intriguing brief encounter that attempts to recover what has been lost in one family's story, and uncovers just enough to let you know there is far more lurking underneath.