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

Showing now

The Jungle at the Playhouse Theatre, London WC2 (0844-871 7631). Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s powerful play about life in the migrant camp in Calais was inspired by the stories of the people they met while staging productions in the Jungle. It has now transferred to the West End and “everyone who can see this should try to” (Telegraph). Ends 3 November.

Yves Klein at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (01993-810530). Yves Klein’s minimal paintings and sculptures, awash in his signature blue, are on display at Blenheim until 7 October.

Roman Dead at the Museum of London Docklands, E14 (020-7001 9844). At the centre of this show, which looks at how Roman London dealt with its dead, is a sarcophagus found in Southwark last year with the skeleton of a woman buried inside. Ends 28 October.

Book now

French playwright Florian Zeller’s new work, The Height of the Storm, stars Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins as a married couple who start having doubts. 1-8 September, Richmond Theatre; then Cambridge, Bath and, from 2 October, Wyndham’s Theatre, London, WC2 (www.theheightofthestorm.com).

Just out in paperback

Origin by Dan Brown (Corgi £7.99). The fifth book in the wildly popular Robert Langdon series, Origin sees Brown’s hero on the run with the future Spanish queen. It’s “fun in its galumphing way” (Guardian).