The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing and reading

Last chance

Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich (01603-593199). This “innovative and memorable” retrospective of work by the Swiss artist demonstrates the deep impact he had on British art (Telegraph). Ends 29 August.

Showing now

Colour: The Art and Science of

Illuminated Manuscripts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (01223-332900). The dazzling artworks in this “sumptuous” show will dispel any presumptions you may have about the gloomy Middle Ages (Guardian). Ends 30 December.

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Banned in its home country, the Belarus Free Theatre is touring the UK. In its production Burning Doors, victims of state censorship, including Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina, are given the chance to tell their stories. 23 August14 October (www.belarusfreetheatre.com).

There are still a few tickets left for Her Name Was Carmen at the London Coliseum, starring the Russian prima ballerina Irina Kolesnikova. This updating of the classic tale sets it in a refugee camp on the fringes of Europe. 23-28 August (www.eno.org).

Just out in paperback

This is London by Ben Judah (Picador £9.99). Judah “tells the story of London through the people he meets”: from the Arab princess he chats to in a café, to the volunteer who washes dead bodies for a mosque in Leyton (Times).