In the quaint suburban community of Stillwater, a mysterious shack springs up from the dust with the inhabitants nowhere to be seen. As speculation abounds, new residents Sihle and Bonolo are recruited by their neighbourhood to be the face of a campaign to demolish the shack.

A little mermaid trades her voice for legs. She dreams of a human world bathed in sun. A group of teenagers trade stories about life in 2020. They dream of all the worlds that could have been. Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairytale is radically re-imagined by a collective of teenage and adult theatre makers in The Mermaid by Cassandra Fumi.

Gifted coder Sam Turing has stepped out of line. For that, the Algorithm decides he must be relocated to a new school. High school is hard enough as it is, let alone being named a threat to the System. To survive the Algorithm and perhaps more importantly, high school, Sam needs to make some true friends, beyond the screen.

Two women. A chance meeting. Giddy kisses they never should have shared. Eleanor Tindall's play Tender is the story of two people who find each other without even knowing they were looking.

When an orphaned young woman is taken in by some local do-gooders, she is expected to be seen and not heard. Dazzled by a pair of beautiful shoes, she sees in them an opportunity to shine – but soon her feet betray her, taking her to places she does not wish to go.

Billy Barrett and Ellice Stevens's After the Act is a funny, camp and unapologetically queer musical about how a moral panic gripped a nation – and a community decided to fight back. Its inspiring, often heartbreaking, stories of teachers, students and activists impacted by the legislation are accompanied by a joyously exuberant score written by Frew and inspired by the music of the 1980s.

Sybylla Melvyn is finding her voice. Growing up in the 90s – the 1890s, that is – life doesn't throw a lot of options at a girl. But life didn't reckon on Sybylla. Forced to choose between romance and her own genius, her family and a future she defines, she's decided she's having it all.

In Whitby Harbour, in the summer of 1991, something extraordinary happened. A humble pleasure boat set sail for the Arctic, crewed by misfits, pensioners and the vicar for Egton and Grosmont. This motley crew was assembled for a daring mission: to erect a plaque honouring the legendary Whitby whaler and explorer Captain William Scoresby Senior on a volcanic island hundreds of miles north of Iceland. The boat was illegal, the crew untrained and the plan... unhinged.

Set beneath the shiny skyscrapers and shopping malls of Singapore, Golden Blood transports us into a seething underbelly of violence, drugs and chaos. As the orphaned siblings envision a future glittering with Chanel and Miu Miu bling, they'll also have to reckon with the half-remembered rituals they've inherited and confront the ghosts of their past...

Original fairy-tales were about bravado, fortune, destiny and courage. But always, watching from the edges, were the quiet ones. The bit characters. The weary mothers, the ugly sisters, the irrelevant queens, the grandmothers. In The Magic Hour, they get their chance to shine.