The Employees is at the Queen Elizabeth Hall [Natalia Kabanow]

CHAMPAGNE flows, music pulses, and moths flutter around coloured lights as Jay Gatsby longs for Daisy Buchanan. Experience The Great Gatsby through its period dances: the Black Bottom, the Waltz, the Foxtrot and the Charleston. Beneath the glitz lies a haunting undercurrent – dreams are fleeting, violence rife, and shadows cast by cheap money and dangerous dreams. 7.30pm, Jan 14-16. etceteratheatrecamden.com/

• Łukasz Twarkowski makes his hotly anticipated London debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with The Employees, an adaptation of the dystopian sci-fi novel by Olga Ravn. An immersive, visceral experience, the show combines dark satire, soundscapes, film and installation. Audience members move around the space and experience the performance from different points of view. 2pm & 7.30pm, Jan 16-19. southbankcentre.co.uk

• Fresh from their grandfather’s funeral, Malcolm Spivak corners Dan and Lauren with a proposition: help him kidnap Jeremy Corbyn. Nick Cassenbaum’s Jewish heist comedy, After the Levoyah, blends comedy and political satire, and explores anti-Semitism in the diaspora and the dangers of collective hysteria. 7.30pm, to Jan 25. theyardtheatre.co.uk/

• Santi and Naz live in pre-partition India. One Sikh, one Muslim, they have little understanding of how religion will divide them. As partition draws closer, the girls remain oblivious to the spreading social unrest and violence. Santi & Naz explores female friendship, coming of age and coming out, set against the backdrop of a country about to be changed forever. 6.45pm, Jan 21-Feb 8. Upstairs, sohotheatre.com/

• Shakespeare meets Narnia in this all-female Midsummer Night’s Dream. Fury and discord have plunged the world into a wild, wintry wonderland, where nothing is as it seems. While warring fairies wreak havoc on the climate, four lovers try to find harmony among the confusion. Meanwhile, the local am-dram group is trying to rehearse their panto with a clash of passion, chaos and anarchic revelry. 7.30pm, Jan 24-26. thecockpit.org.uk

• In Posh Girls two former friends meet unexpectedly in a therapy waiting room 12 years after their savage breakup. Roaring through their 20s like dynamite on ice, Hermione and Alexandra, once inseparable soul sisters at St Jonathan’s School for the “rich and untalented”, had no fear. But when is too far simply, too far? 9pm/8pm, Jan 28-Feb 2. kingsheadtheatre.com/

• Her Country follows four young people navigating their careers during a time of national upheaval. A librarian in Yorkshire searches for love, a civil servant tries to find his way in Whitehall, and two journalists battle for a full-time job – each facing personal and professional struggles while living through the chaos of Brexit. 7pm, Jan 27-30. thehopetheatre.com/

• Freshfest’s showcase at the Old Red Lion Theatre includes new writing, devised pieces, physical theatre, musicals, clowning, improv and narrative comedy from Jan 19-March 1. oldredliontheatre.co.uk/