The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing and reading
Last chance
Looking at Lucian at Theatre Royal Bath (www.theatreroyal.org.uk). In this one-man play, Henry Goodman is “utterly convincing” as the saturnine artist Lucian Freud, reminiscing about his life and loves (Sunday Times). Ends 2 September.
Showing now
Howard Hodgkin: Painting India at Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire (01924247360). The artist, who died this year, visited India every year for half a century, finding – as this “marvellous” exhibition shows – inspiration in the country’s vibrant colours and culture (FT). Ends 8 October.
Book now
Following its successful run in Bath, this revival of Alice Childress’s 1955 play Trouble in Mind transfers to the intimate surrounds of the Print Room at Notting Hill’s Coronet. 14 September - 14 October (www.the-printroom.org/theatre, 020-3642 6606).
The acclaimed Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter specialises in works that are part dance, part gig, part theatre. Having premiered in Paris, his latest production, Grand Finale, is coming to Sadler’s Wells. 12-16 September (www.sadlerswells.com, 020-7863 8000).
Just out in paperback
A Smell of Burning: A Memoir of Epilepsy by Colin Grant (Vintage £9.99). Named after the strange aura experienced by some epilepsy sufferers before an attack, Grant’s biography of the disorder draws on his brother’s experience of epilepsy (Times).