Critics’ choices
What to see this week
FILM TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG by Robbie Collin
George MacKay ( 1917) gives the performance of his life in this rowdy and ravishing adaptation of Peter Carey’s novel, which dynamites the legend of the notorious Australian bandit. Justin Kurzel directs a strong cast, including Charlie Hunnam and Essie Davis.
18 cert, 125 min
DANCE REVISOR by Mark Monahan
Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young’s Betroffenheit (2015) was as dark, empathetic and accomplished a piece of art as has ever been created. In this new work, they and Pite’s company Kidd Pivot turn their attention to Gogol’s comic play The Inspector
General (known as “Revizor” in Russia).
Sadler’s Wells, London EC1 (020 7863 8000), Tues-Thurs
COMEDY ARDAL O’HANLON by Tristram Fane Saunders
Is there life after Death in Paradise? Find out from the affable erstwhile Father Ted star, in his stand-up tour The Showing Off Must Go On. Queens Theatre, Barnstaple (mickperrin.com), tonight and touring
EXHIBITIONS AUBREY BEARDSLEY by Alastair Sooke
This is the first Tate outing in almost a century for the prolific draughtsman and illustrator, an enfant terrible of fin-de-siècle London who died from tuberculosis in 1898, aged just 25, having
POP MICHAEL KIWANUKA by Neil McCormick
From a melting pot of rock, funk and folk, the soulful
British singer-songwriter produces songs of doubt, pride and great warmth.
O2 Academy, Birmingham (michaelkiwanuka.com), tonight and touring
THEATRE A NUMBER by Dominic Cavendish
An accomplished revival by Polly Findlay of Caryl Churchill’s fizzy yet gutwrenching 2002 vision of a near-future in which human cloning has become reality. Roger Allam takes the role of a father who has played God; Colin Morgan is superb as the various iterations of his son.
Bridge Theatre, London SE1 (0333 320 0051), until March 14
OPERA DENIS AND KATYA by Rupert Christiansen
Composer Philip Venables and librettist-director Ted Huffman’s bracingly original and bleakly powerful one-act opera, based on the tragedy of a Russian teenage couple who lived out their daily existence and gruesome deaths on the internet, is given an exemplary staging by Music Theatre Wales.
Theatr Clwyd, Mold (music theatre.wales), tomorrow and touring
CLASSICAL SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA by Ivan Hewett
New principal conductor Maxim Emelyanychev is a young rising star who refreshes everything he touches. So this concert of Beethoven’s Sixth and Seventh symphonies promises to be special.
Perth Concert Hall (sco.org.uk), Weds and touring