![]() ![]() Winning the Turner prize unleashed this articulate figure in a way it has liberated no other artist. Grayson Perry Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, 22 July to 12 November The biggest ever retrospective of Perry’s pots, tapestries, prints and more is a chance to assess the artistic significance of someone who straddles pop culture with consummate ease. Photograph: Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro The road to success … Grayson Perry’s Sponsored By You, 2019. First of this year’s novelties is Marc Blitzstein’s 1941 musical play, depicting those who frequent a Greek-American social club at a time of austerity and unemployment. But it has become a staple in its own right, mixing new works with rediscoveries and fresh takes on repertory favourites. No for an Answer Arcola theatre, London, 26 to 29 July As its name signals, Grimeborn is a very different kind of opera festival from its country-house cousins. Tommy Smith/Arild Anderson/Thomas Strønen St Bride’s Centre, Edinburgh, 2 2 July A busy end to Edinburgh’s jazz and blues festival features one of Europe’s great creative improvising trios, comprising lyrical Scots sax virtuoso and bandleader Tommy Smith trading ideas on the fly with Norway’s double-bass great Arild Anderson and his fellow countryman, percussionist Thomas Strønen. While the lineup continues to skews rock and indie – Royal Blood, Kasabian and Paul Weller headline – there is also room for experimentalists Everything Everything and pop star Maisie Peters. Y Not? festival 28 to 30 July, Pikehall, Derbyshire Started in 2005 with just 120 people, this east Midlands festival has grown both in status and size over the years. Prog-metallers Sleep Token, fronted by the mysterious Vessel, headline on Friday, while synthwave heavyweight Perturbator and Welsh post-hardcore band Dream State are among the other highlights. Radar 28 to 30 July, O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester The award-winning festival championing experimental rock returns with another stacked lineup of professional noise merchants. ![]() My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock Out now The talented and prolific film-maker Mark Cousins enlists the services of the impressionist Alistair McGowan to create a voiceover from none other than “Alfred Hitchcock” for this playful film that imagines the iconic director rewatching his own films and thinking about how they stand up today. This time, it’s the turn of nuclear war and the father of the atom bomb, J Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer Out now In an era of so much “content” designed mainly to sell merch, it’s fun to see Christopher Nolan given pots of money to make expensive films about dreams, time and space (Inception, Tenet, Interstellar). Featuring talks, Q&As and screenings of cinematic landmarks including Meshes of the Afternoon, M*A*S*H and Eve’s Bayou. Margot Robbie stars in the role she was born to play, while Ryan Gosling as Ken deliciously reminds us that before he was an Oscar-nominated actor he did a stint as a Disney Mouseketeer.Ĭinema Rediscovered 26 to 30 July, various venues, Bristol Bristol’s premier arthouse cinema, the Watershed, is once more flinging its doors (and many others) wide open for an accessible and thoughtfully curated banquet of classic cinema for fans new and old. Barbie Out now She’s a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world, as visualised by Greta Gerwig, the film-maker behind 2019’s zesty reimagining of Little Women. ![]()
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