GLASGOW EXHIBITION
What Will They See of Me?
CCA
Sauchiehall Street
Until July 12
This exhibition by Lucy Clout and Marianna Simnett, winners of the Jerwood prize, explores the pressures and perils of visibility in a digital world where individuals routinely circularise images of themselves. The work on show manifests underlying insecurities about personal identity and wider anxieties about what we might be leaving behind for posterity.
cca-glasgow.com

LONDON FESTIVAL
London Festival of Architecture
Citywide
June 1-June 29
As part of this year’s festival, free guided tours are being offered around four of the city’s newest housing developments. They include Woodberry Down, one of the biggest estate regeneration programmes in Britain, which borders a beautiful reservoir and the new tower at One Blackfriars, built using a complex construction process. Homeless charity Shelter, Catja de Haas and Lala Thorpe of Artescape present the Giant Dolls House Project, pictured, (June 1-10) at Old Street’s Shelter cafe — made up of individually made shoe-boxes, which visitors can contribute to. This is ongoing project reflects the way in which communities develop and grow and the desperate need for housing in the city.
londonfestivalofarchitecture.org

LONDON THEATRE
The Oresteia
Almeida Theatre
Almeida Street, N1
Until July 18
The Oresteia, the trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus more than two millennia ago, concerns the curse on the House of Atreus. Its themes of revenge and justice are personified in the character of Orestes, who avenges his father’s murder by his mother Klytemnestra by killing her. A bloody family drama, spanning several decades, asks whether justice can ever be done and whether a recurrent cycle of violence can ever truly be broken. In a “radically reimagined” version of the plays by Robert Icke, Lia Williams takes the role of Klytemnestra.
almeida.co.uk

SHEFFIELD CINEMA
Sheffield doc/fest
Citywide
June 5-10
Over 140 films are to be screened in this year’s festival, one of the most important in Europe. Among the highlights of the Instigators & Agitators strand tackling national and global issues, Generation Right focuses on the legacy of Margaret Thatcher’s neoliberal economic policies, Democrats highlights the tensions around Zimbabwe’s draft constitution, Drone lifts the veil of secrecy on targeted killings by the US and Those Who Said No focuses on the 1980s reign of terror against the left in Iran.
sheffdocfest.com