From Lord of the Flies to Deftones: Your complete entertainment guide for next week | culture

Checkout: cinema

100 nights of hero
Out now
Mica Monroe plays a woman trapped in a castle with her husband’s handsome and seductive best friend (Nicholas Galitzine) who bets that he can lure her away from her marriage. Smart maid Hiro (Emma Corrin) watches what’s going on and does her best to thwart the dirtbag’s plans, in this fantasy tale from Julia Jackman. Charli xcx also stars.

My father’s shadow
Out now
ọpẹ́ Dìrísù (Slow Horses) stars in the semi-autobiographical debut from Akinola Davies Jr as an estranged father travels through Lagos, Nigeria with his two young sons during a day of violent unrest in the wake of the 1993 election crisis.

village
Out now
There’s Something Rotten in Country England: Riz Ahmed plays Shakespeare’s famous Dane as the scion of a wealthy South Asian British family in Anil Karia’s modern play, perhaps the most famous play of all time. Starring Morfydd Clarke, Joe Alwyn and Sheba Chaddha.

Water chronology
Out now
Kristen Stewart makes her directorial debut with a film adaptation of Lydia Yuknavitch’s successful memoir. Imogen Poots plays Yuknavitch, who began her academic career with a swimming scholarship and was later chosen to work with One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest author Ken Kesey on a collaborative novel. Catherine Bray

Checkout: Gigs

Deftones
From February 12 to 20; The tour begins in Birmingham
Ahead of a busy summer of festivals, including the London Festival in August, US alternative metal makers are coming for an arena tour. With last year’s smash band Private Music continuing their string of distinctly above-average albums, these shows should serve as the perfect warm-up. Michael Cragg

Mika
AO Arena, Manchester, February 11; OVO Arena, London, February 12
Perhaps now best known as a judge of the railway station music competition The Piano, Mika returns to showcase his pop music with an arena tour in support of new album, Hyperlove. Songs like the unashamed “Modern Times” should pair well alongside hits Grace Kelly and “Love Today.” MC

Scottish Opera: Fujikura’s Great Wave
Theater Royal Glasgow, February 12 and 14; On tour until February 21st
Composer Dai Fujikura was born in Japan, and moved to the UK as a teenager. His beautiful music is rooted in both cultures. In a Scottish-Japanese collaboration, Fujikura’s fourth opera explores the life of artist Katsushika Hokusai. Its world premiere is directed by Stuart Stratford and directed by Satoshi Miyagi. Flora Wilson

Gwilym Simcock and Emma Rawitz
Jazz Watermill, Dorking, 10 February
The duo of multi-genre virtuoso pianist Gwilym Simcock and British saxophonist Emma Rawitz – the latter an inspired player of classical jazz and sax styles and the latest styles of her student days – are a jewel of new European music. They are playing tracks from their album Big Visit and much more at this concert. John Fordham

Exodus: Art

Gwen John
National Museum Cardiff, from 7 February to 28 June
This defiant artist braved isolation and poverty to find freedom. As a result, she is one of the few British artists of the early twentieth century who is considered a modern great. From her adventures as a model and Rodin’s lover, to her discovery of religion and spirituality, she went her own way.

Lucian Freud
National Portrait Gallery, London, from 12 February to 4 May
The harsh and beautiful truth of Lucian Freud’s art is based on no tricks or theory, just an uncompromising gaze. This exhibition follows his unsentimental observations of people through sketches and drawings on canvas. How much of his paintings were made face-to-face with his subjects and how much were planned in advance?

Surah and the sea
Courtauld Gallery, London, from 13 February to 17 May
Drip rave rules the waves in the great scary drip views of the seaside. Seurat saw something sad, sublime, and resplendent in the uninhabited harbours, the purple rocks, and, most disturbing of all, the Gravelines Canal in northern France, which he made a symbol of isolation and emptiness. Monet through the chopper.

Quentin Blake
Sherborne, Sherborne, until April 12
There is more than one way to draw the essence of people. While Freud was harsh, veteran painter Quentin Blake is famous for his eccentricities – but the 100 images he presents here, all painted in 2025, prove what a sharp and unforgettable artist he was. He also shows ingenious fantasies of flying. Jonathan Jones

Exit: stage

Vittorio Angeloni
Nottingham, February 11; Manchester, February 12; Liverpool, February 13; Touring through April 18
The title of the Northern Irish comedy show gives you an idea of ​​the clever provocation you’re in for: an irreverent reference to the hit TV series about the Troubles, You Can’t Say Anything More, grappling with omerta over conflict. Rachel Aroesti

Birmingham Royal Ballet: Don Quixote
Birmingham Hippodrome, February 12-21, on tour until April 25
When he was 16 years old, Carlos Acosta won the Lausanne Prize dancing a solo from the ballet Don Quixote. Decades later, he made his own sunny version of the same ballet, full of Spanish heat and light, which is now performed by the company he directs. Lindsey Winship

Shadowlands
Aldwich Theatre, London, until 9 May
A true story of faith, love, doubt, and desire–and a life-changing romance between author C.S. Lewis and poet Joy Davidman. It was a huge hit when it debuted in 1989, starring Hugh Bonneville and Maggie Siff. Miriam Gillinson

Lark Rise to Candleford
The Watermill Theater in Newbury until 14 March
Watermill Theater’s cast and musicians work their magic on the beloved novel about a young girl who moves from the isolation of the Cotswolds to the bustling market town of Candleford. mg