Wrecked (A Guardian Reader’s Quest to Save Africa)

Shipwrecked between continents, a lone woman bobs along in her suitcase considering her childhood abroad and the liberal views she inherited from her mother. This energetic one-woman play would work better as a series of sketches: the characters are funny and well-drawn, but the narrative thrust gets submerged beneath an over-ambitious thematic scope (which includes post-colonial guilt, carbon-footprints and the priorities of motherhood – to name but three).

The Edinburgh Sleep Centre, 524 9730, until 20 Aug, 3pm, £6.