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

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Collecting and Giving at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (fitzmuseum.cam. ac.uk). Works by Gwen John, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Walter Sickert feature in this first display of the collection acquired over many years by Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, and bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam in 2015. Ends 3 March.

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Cathy Marston, the choreographer behind the Northern Ballet’s acclaimed Jane Eyre, has turned her attention to the life of Queen Victoria. Victoria opens on 9 March at Leeds Grand, and will then visit Sheffield, London, Leicester and on until 1 June (northernballet.com/victoria).

The centrepiece of the Manchester International Festival is Idris Elba and Kwame Kwei-armah’s Tree, which combines music, dance and film. 29 June-10 July, Upper Campfield Market Hall, Manchester (mif.co.uk); then 29 July-24 August, Young Vic, London SE1 (youngvic.org).

John Malkovich stars in the world premiere of David Mamet’s Bitter Wheat, a dark farce inspired by the Harvey Weinstein scandal. 7 June-14 September, Garrick Theatre, London WC2 (bitterwheatplay.com).

Out in paperback

The Only Story by Julian Barnes (Vintage £8.99). The “melancholy” tale of Paul, a 19-year-old man who falls for an older, married woman. Decades later, he looks back at how they fell in love – and how their relationship gradually fell apart (Times).