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Frances Barber, Amanda Abbington and Reece Shearsmith in The Unfriend at the Minerva
Theatre, Chichester
Picasso Ingres: Face to Face
Picasso’s Woman with a Book (1932) arrives from California to appear alongside the painting that
inspired it: Madame Moitessier, a magnificent portrait of a bejewelled merchant’s wife, by
Ingres. National Gallery, London WC2 (nationalgallery.org.uk), until Oct 9
Vivian Maier: Anthology
The first British exhibition for the “secret” US artist Vivian Maier, who, while working for 40 years
as a nanny, kept up a side hustle as a superb street photographer; her negatives weren’t discovered
until 2007, two years before her death. MK Gallery, Milton Keynes (mkgallery.org), until Sept 25
Theatre and opera tickets
Daddy
Danya Taymor directs a British cast in this drama from Slave Play’s Jeremy O Harris, about a
white art collector and the African-American artist he scoops up. Almeida, London N1
(almeida.co.uk), until April 30
The Meaning of Zong
Olivier-winner Giles Terera (Hamilton) makes his playwriting debut with a historical drama about
Olaudah Equiano, the slave turned abolitionist who spread the word about the 1781 Zong slave