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Peter Serafinowicz as Brian Butterfield

He started life in a short series of sketches within 2007’s The Peter Serafinowicz Show,
but the irrepressible Brian Butterfield found a second life online where he became a
cult comedy star. The character, a dubious entrepreneur shilling everything from a
sub-par talking clock to private detective services, is probably best known for the
Butterfield Diet Plan (bonbonbonbons and pork cylinders, anyone?) but now takes to
the stage in his first live tour. Expect an inspirational business seminar with plenty of
crowd-pleasing sketches. RH

Touring, 21 May – 25 June (brianbutterfield.co.uk)

Visual arts

Judy Chicago: Revelations

Serpentine, London

Chicago can justly claim to be the grand dame of feminist art in the US. Co-founder of
the LA Woman’s Building in 1973, she is best known for the iconic (and in its day
highly controversial) installation The Dinner Party. For her expansive projects Chicago
has historically collaborated with huge (named) networks of craftswomen. Together,
they produced banners, tapestries and ceramics that translated skills and materials
associated with the home into ambitious and highly political gallery displays exploring
birth, death and everything in between (including orgasm). Now 84, Chicago comes to

London fresh from an appropriately uproarious and collaborative retrospective at New
York’s New Museum, which positioned the artist alongside the work of great women
from herstory. HJ

22 May – 1 September (serpentinegalleries.org)

Film

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

While other big-budget reboots and CGI-laden franchises have taken up most of the
oxygen, the Planet of the Apes series has consistently and quietly been one of the best

of the bunch. With incredibly true-to-life looking motion capture graphics, the latest in
the adventures of Caesar the ape reaches far into the future of the civilisation he
helped create, looking back at how his Moses-like effect has impacted the world and
its various societies of ape and man. (Humans, of course, have gone feral.) CN

24 May