What Shadows: Royal Lyceum Theatre, Grindlay Street

Ian McDiarmid stars as Enoch Powell in Birmingham Repertory Theatre's staging of Chris Hannan's drama about how a politically divided country moves forward in the wake of a crisis.

Directed by Roxana Silbert.

It's Alive!: Museum of Childhood, 42 High Street

A family-friendly interactive exhibition where you can see a marvellous cast of clockwork characters and over 40 astonishing automata pieces from the last two centuries.

Edinburgh artist Robert Powell will explore the history, mythology and ideas connected to automata, alongside a new series of etchings.