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Thursday 26 February 2026

What to do this weekend, from Agatha Christie box sets to This Body festival

Our critic picks five cultural highlights, whether you have a few minutes, an afternoon or a night out to spare

Three minutes

Hanging Titties by Peaches

As evidenced by her signature track, Fuck the Pain Away (2000), the Canadian musician Peaches (Merrill Beth Nisker) never played coy with the lyrical messaging. From her provocative new album, No Lube So Rude, I’m listening to Hanging Titties. Sample lyric: “Thirsty much?/My hanging titties/Hit like the punch”. Punk? Electroclash? One-woman radical art installation? Whatever Peaches brings, it’s always bracing.

Listen to Hanging Titties here. Read Miranda Sawyer’s interview with Peaches here.

An afternoon

A View Of One’s Own

The Courtauld Institute Of Art, Somerset House, London

Move over JMW Turner. At the Courtauld, a collection of 10 overlooked 18th- and 19th-century female landscape artists. Evocative watercolours and atmospheric drawings feature vistas from around Britain, Europe and the world. Exhibits include Elizabeth Batty’s Simplon Road Between Baveno and Gravellona (1817) and Fanny Blake’s A Rainbow Over Patterdale Churchyard, Cumbria (1849).

Until 20 May. Tickets available here. Read Laura Cumming’s review of A View of One’s Own here.

An evening

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Our Town, Rose theatre, Kingston

The Welsh National Theatre and the Rose theatre, stage a revival of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer prize-winning three-act play Our Town; Wilder’s fictional community of Grover’s Corners and the overarching themes of the passing of time and mortality are viewed through a Welsh lens. For the first time, the play is performed by an all-Welsh cast, headed by Michael Sheen in the role of “Stage Manager”. Russell T Davies serves as creative associate.

Until Saturday 28 March. Tickets available here. Read Susannah Clapp’s review of Our Town here.

A day 

Agatha Christie box sets (Netflix)

Netflix has all the Hercule Poirot (David Suchet-era) and Miss Marple (Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie) mysteries nicely squished together in box sets. Frankly irresistible.

A weekend

This Body festival, The Mount Without, Bristol

At this new dance festival from the Bristolian dance company, Impermanence, expect performance art, cabaret, workshops, and more. At her “Niplash Weekender”, the dance-theatre artist, Karla Shacklock will be staging a solo performance looking into the multifaceted socio-politics and taboos of feeding infants.

Until 8 March. Tickets available here.

Illustration by Charlotte Durance

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