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By Kay Lockett

IF you never try these wild choices then you get stuck with an average show," said theatre director David Hutchinson.

The experimental 23-year-old is encouraging his cast of actors at Sell a Door Theatre Company to try something new on stage, for its production of A Christmas Carol at Greenwich Playhouse. And when I spoke to him at rehearsals with only 10 days to go until the opening there was still no script.

A prison drama with X-Factor-style audience participation debuts at Waterloo East this month following a successful showcase at the Edinburgh Festival.

For the show's writer and performer Deborah Klayman and actor Ali Kemp this is their first project together and draws on their personal experiences in the field of mental health.

A chilling true story of two twins locked in a world of self-imposed silence is brought to the stage by Shared Experience and opens at the Arcola Theatre this week.

The sisters, June and Jennifer Gibbons, spoke only in the privacy of their own bedroom and lived in a turbulent co-existence until Jennifer's death in 1993.

Star of semi-autobiographical play The Diva In Me, Phillipa Stanton, has lent her life to the show.

Conceived over Friday morning coffee, the one-woman performance begins a run at Greenwich Theatre tomorrow and it's a very personal project.

A young writer asks big questions in his latest play. The Boy On The Swing by Joe Harbot explores the need for religion in the 21st century.

"When Earl Hunt finds a business card labelled 'Talk to God' in the street, he comes into contact with the Hope and Trust Foundation which offers the chance to meet God after submitting credit card details," Harbot said.

It whet the appetite to go back to Wilde," said the awarding-winning producer of last year's sell-out production of The Importance of Being Earnest at Greenwich Playhouse. Alice de Sousa is producing Galleon Theatre Company's version of A Woman of No Importance - once again bringing Oscar Wilde back to the stage in the borough.

Once upon a time, stories were born around campfires and by bedsides.

Barrister Lesley Young used to make up tales for her young children when she returned home from a hard day in court. This Christmas, the Isle of Dogs resident will see one of her creations on stage, as one of two festive shows at The Space.

The magical tale of the boy who never grew up is on its way to The O2 and promises to be a seasonal treat for children of all ages.

JM Barrie's play Peter Pan opens on December 1 in a specially-constructed tent alongside the arena, in a production that thrilled audiences in Kensington Gardens last summer.

IT'S winter and for many thoughts turn to matters of health, both physical and mental.

So what could be more appropriate than a short West End run of Well a comedy on that very theme from the pen of avant-garde American writer Lisa Kron.