Ever heard the collective heartstrings of an audience snap all at once? Well, Passion Play definitely puts the passion back into West End theatre.

Carnal love and sacred music make for a corrosive combination in David Leveaux’s bitter and raw revival of Peter Nichols’s 1981 play that charts the blistering effects of an adulterous affair on a middle-aged couple in the 1970s. Rarely has there been a more exciting combination of actors on a stage in the West End. They may not carry the ‘star’ banner, but anyone who knows anything about theatre will tell you that the combined forces of actors of this calibre is worth the ticket price itself. Zöe Wanamaker, Owen Teal, Oliver Cotton, Samantha Bond and Sian Thomas are some of the most experienced and finest actors of their generation. What’s more, this play really gives them the space to fly.

Witty, wonderful and all things English, Relatively Speaking was Alan Ayckbourn’s first big West End smash hit when it opened in 1967 at the Duke of York’s Theatre. Now it brings all its charm and hilarity to London’s Wyndham’s Theatre from 14 May until 31 August 2013. With a star cast comprised of Felicity Kendal, Jonathan Coy, Kara Tointon and Max Bennett and this revival coming from legendary director Lindsay Posner, you know you’ll be in good hands.