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

Showing now Grayson Perry: the Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!

at Arnolfini, Bristol (0117917 2300). It drew record visitor numbers at the Serpentine; now, the work of the Turner Prizewinning potter and cultural commentator is showing in Bristol. Ends 24 December.

Albion at the Almeida, London N1 (020-7359 4404). Set in a country house, Mike Bartlett’s new play explores ideas about British identity. With Victoria Hamilton and Nicholas Rowe. Rupert Goold directs. Ends 24 November.

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The National Portrait Gallery (020-7306 0055) has amassed over 50 of Cézanne’s paintings from across the word for its blockbuster show, Cézanne Portraits. Many of the works, including Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair (c.1890), have never been seen in the UK before. 26 October-11 February 2018.

Imogen Poots and James Norton star in the first UK staging of Amy Herzog’s acclaimed play Belleville, about an American couple whose marriage unravels when they move to Paris. 7 December-3 February 2018, Donmar Warehouse, London WC2 (020-3282 3808).

Just out in paperback

Passchendaele by Nick Lloyd (Penguin £9.99). This “rigorous study” of the third battle of Ypres is “a model for what a military history should be” (Daily Telegraph).