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Nick Payne’s new playÌýThe Same Deep Water As Me is set in LutonÌýat the offices of a down at heel firm of personal injury lawyersÌýwho have embracedÌýthe compensation culture.Nigel Lindsay plays Barry,one of the lawyers. ÌýA little lie spins out of control ..

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The Same Deep Water As Me is at the Donmar Warehouse until the 28th September.

1. 2 Guns

Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Cast: Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton

Academy Award winner (Denzel Washington) and (Mark Wahlberg) lead an all-star cast in 2 Guns, an explosive action film that tracks two operatives from competing bureaus who are forced to work together. But there is a big problem with their unique alliance: neither knows that the other is an undercover federal agent.When their attempt to infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel and recover millions goes haywire. Trench and Stigman are suddenly disavowed by their superiors. Now that everyone wants them in jail or in the ground, the only person the can count on is the other. Unfortunately for their pursuers, when good guys spends years pretendign to be bad, they pickup a few tricks along the way.

2 Guns is in cinemas now.

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2. Kick Ass 2

Director: Jeff Wadlow
Cast: Chloe Grace Moretz, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jim Carrey, Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Kick-Ass, Hit Girl and Red Mist return for the follow-up to 2010's irreverent global hit: Kick-Ass 2. After Kick-Ass' (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, led by the badass Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey), our hero joins them on patrol. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse)Ìý only the blade-wielding Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) can prevent their annihilation.

Kick Ass 2 is out now.Ìý

3. Call Girl

Director: Mikael Marcimain
Cast: Pernilla August, Josefin Asplund, David Dencik

Based on the true 1970s Swedish Bordellhärvan scandal, which linked underage prostitution with some of society's most powerful political figures. At a time of women's liberation, social security and sexual revolution, we follow the story from poor, murky side streets to labyrinthine corridors that contain the secrets of Sweden's rich and powerful.

Call Girl is in cinemas now.

4. Compliance

Director: Craig Zobel
Cast: Ann Dowd, Matt Servitto, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy

Disturbing drama based on the real-life case of a psychopathic hoax caller in the US who claimed to be a police officer, ordering people to do things and playing on their fear of authority-figures.

Compliance is out on DVD and Blu ray now.

Award-winning performance artist,ÌýÌýhas a newÌýone-woman show Brand New Ancients . It'sÌýa tale of half-brothers lost in a web of human flaws and mistrust.Ìý Set against an orchestral score, it spares no egos in its criticism, but is still warm at heart and before she goes to Edinburgh she's in rehearsal

Kate at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh from the 20 to the 25 August.

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Janette Jenkin’s novel ÌýFirefly, brilliantly covers the life of this complex genius deceptively lightly. She mines the mind ofÌýNoel CowardÌýwith such elegance and deftness we find him at the end of his life on his last legs, in a fug of alcohol, being casually looked after by the dreamy Patrice.

Firefly, written by Janette Jenkins, is published by Chatto & Windus, and available now.Ìý

1. The Transylvanian Trilogy by Miklos Banffy

The Transylvanian TrilogyÌýcould be described as the Hungarian War and Peace or even the Transylvanian war and peace.ÌýIt's an epic novel set in pre First World War Transylvania which is now Rumania. It describes a way of life that by 1918 is going to disappear as the Austro-Hungarian empire is broken up and Transylvania is ruled over by Rumanians who had hitherto been ruled by Hungarian aristocrats.

There are duels, love affairs, beautiful women, courtesans who teach young men about love, cads, extraordinary codes of conduct and beautiful descriptions of the forests of Transylvania when Balint goes camping in the wilderness…..and all the while the reader feels that a way of life is ending.

The Transylvanian Trilogy by Miklos Banffy is published by Everyman, out now.

2. The Past Is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg

It’s the autobiography of Christabel Bielenberg, an Anglo-Irish woman who married a German and who lived in Hitler's Germany from 1934 until 1946.Ìý It’s extraordinarily well written and gives an idea of what it must have been like to live in a country whose political system was corrupted by the ideology of National Socialism.

The Past Is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg is published by Corgi, available now.

3. Love And Beauty by Sarah Dunant

AÌýnovel about the Borgia family, it’s set in Renaissance Italy where various families are slugging it out for wealth and power. So there are the Sforzas of Milan, the Medici in Florence, the Este in Ferrrara and Naples, and in the South the Spanish House of Aragon. In the middle of all of this is Rome and the Borgia family who, by much bribery, ascend to the papacy in the person of Rodrigo Borgia AKA Alexander in 1492.

Love And Beauty by Sarah Dunant is published by Virago, out now.

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Creative forces Teo Connor and Loren Platt set up the in 2011 to create a unity among women involved in any creative industry – from fine artists, to writers, to designers.Ìý The project has gone from strength to strength, developing female role-models in the art world to be reckoned with.Ìý

Loren Platt and Teo Connor launched the W Project in 2011 on the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day.Ìý Their aim is to foster a positive creative community amongst women, and to develop positive female role-models for the artistic community.Ìý