Theatre Watching three plays by Alan Ayckbourn in succession is a bit like observing a non-stop carnival of grotesques - grotesques who look horribly familiar. In GamePlan, the first of the Damsels in Distress trilogy, all set in the same Docklands flat and peopled by the same cast, 16-year-old Sorrel decides to help her hopeless, fag-addicted, dotcom-failed mother by becoming an internet hooker. The other two plays, FlatSpin and RolePlay, are, more simply, a farce and a farcical comedy of manners, involving a drugs sting and a disastrous meeting of in-laws respectively. There are some outstanding performances, especially from Jacqueline King as an elegant lush in RolePlay and Alison Pargeter as spotty Kelly, a sex-mad house-sitter and gangland lapdancer. Duchess Theatre, London. Tickets: 0870 890 1103, www.rutheatres.com .
