Sorry (I Broke Your Arms and Legs) is at the Pleasance

FOOTSBARN’S Twelfth Night explores themes of gender identity, love and loss, while drawing attention to Shakespeare’s darker subplots of pride, hatred and revenge. The company promises rich costumes, live music and classic comedy clowning. Until Nov 16. thecockpit.org.uk/

• Intermission Youth return with another Shakespeare classic (“through a 21st century young London lens”) at the relaunched Collective Theatre (The Laundry, Hornsey Road Baths) in N19. Much Ado About Nothing Remixed features two alternating casts. Until Dec 7. intermissionyouththeatre.co.uk/

• Fragments, by Nigerian poet and storyteller Pearl Ada, weaves together realism, spoken word poetry, music, and physical theatre. We follow Ifemelu, a black African woman, as she reflects on the legacy of colonialism, the scars of gender-based violence, and generational trauma. 9pm, Nov 14-17. etceteratheatrecamden.com/

• Award-winning drag king, Bi-Curious George, presents a raucous celebration of queerness and the animal kingdom in Queer Planet, a love letter to nature. Nov 14-16; Sorry (I Broke Your Arms And Legs) combines a PowerPoint presentation, World Book Day and the Maths Olympiad. Nov 18-20; Jake Roche: Neporrhoids! follows the meteoric rise and fall of a chart-topping boyband. Nov 21-23; The Simple Life: Live Reunion Special sees the iconic noughties duo, Paris and Nicole, in a campy, glam murder mystery. Nov 27- Dec 7. pleasance.co.uk/

• At Camden People’s Theatre The World of Yesterday, an experimental cabaret adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s novel, explores the fragility of civilisation, and how easily we can be lost to hate. The show brings together a multi-disciplinary group of artists led by queer Jewish theatre-maker Anya Ostrovskaia. Nov 19-20. cptheatre.co.uk/

• Akram Khan returns to a time when we were connected with nature and mythology. GIGENIS evokes the memories of our civilization. Khan shares the stage with six artists of Indian classical dance and seven live musicians. Nov 20-24. Eva Recacha’s The Picnic explores ideas of utopia inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, which presents human figures in a terrestrial paradise. Nov 27-29. sadlerswells.com/

• Based on the Rotenburg Cannibal case in which Armin Meiwes murdered and ate a voluntary victim after posting an advertisement online, Sweetmeat attempts to unpack sadistic desires fuelled by online echo chambers, childhood trauma and gay loneliness. The show combines elements of verbatim theatre and folklore. Until Nov 23 oldredliontheatre.co.uk/

• Tommy Murphy’s adaptation of Timothy Conigrave’s memoir, Holding the Man, follows the rites of passage of Tim amid the normalised chaos at a 1970s Melbourne High School. He falls hopelessly in love with John, the captain of the football team. Billed as a comedy, a cast of six play 40 characters. Nov 21-24 upstairsatthegatehouse.com/

• Christine Rose’s one-act play Sanctuary follows Cassie and Amelia as they face the stark realities of what it means to survive in an increasingly hostile world. The story reflects the dangers of resurgent fascist ideologies and explores political and social unrest. Nov 26-30. thehopetheatre.com