MOSQUITOES National Theatre

Lucy Kirkwood’s somewhat overwhelming Mosquitoes offers a series of domestic collisions between two sisters which are interrupted by the occasional lecture on the universe and the various ways our world could end. The casting of Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams means that the theatre is playing to full houses and it is their acting and Joseph Quinn’s acting as a disturbed lad which gives the play its dramatic, emotional and intellectual energy. Rufus Norris’s in-the-round production has a striking and effective planetarium feel and the colours are ravishing.