Things to do in London this weekend, from Frieze to Francis Bacon

Frieze has good and genuinely travel of age, turning 21 this year. To people the occasion, the world-beating creation just is making moves and changing things up for the 60,000 art-lovers who visit. Smaller galleries offering lesser-known gems are acceptable to person much prominence — your accidental to find a caller favourite — and a abbreviated locomotion distant is Frieze Masters, displaying historical greats. Until October 13, frieze.com

Despite his fame arsenic some a flâneur and bon viveur, Francis Bacon’s creation speaks to an outlook connected beingness arsenic bleak and brutal arsenic concrete. This showing of much than 55 works explores his genius from the Fifties until his decease successful 1992. It is, successful a way, a showing of his life, with subjects including Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne, arsenic good arsenic his lovers Peter Lacy and George Dyer, of whom Bacon’s portraits are unusually tender. Until January 19, npg.org.uk

Steadily but assuredly, Maison François has grown into its ain tegument since opening successful 2020, and successful doing truthful has go 1 of London’s champion restaurants. Now its squad are utilizing that acquisition for Café François, which offers thing akin to its French-leaning sibling, albeit much relaxed. A two-floor, all-day operation, spell for pastries for breakfast, steak sandwiches and rotisserie chickenhearted baguettes astatine lunch, and successful the evening marquee dishes, similar lobster oregon premier rib. Unusually, bigger groups are precise welcome. cafefrancois.london

Less coming of age, much coming of rage: adapted from CJ Skuse’s comic thriller, Sweetpea follows the communicative of Rhiannon Lewis, an overlooked wallflower needing much retired of life. Her solution? Murder. Obviously. Ella Purnell stars successful the six-part series, which, told from Rhiannon’s fabulously sweary perspective, is simply a hoot. A acheronian one, mind. October 10

Film: Hard Truths, London Film Festival

On the BFI London Film Festival rolls, and with it comes Mike Leigh’s latest, Hard Truths. His archetypal movie successful six years, and already feted arsenic 1 of his finest, it intimately details the strained enslaved betwixt sisters Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) and Chantal (Michele Austin). Pansy’s crotchety, captious quality is driven by intelligence torment, but is pushing each those adjacent to her away. A compassionate, densely layered look astatine the ties that bind. October 14, 16 & 20

Boris Johnson’s much-anticipated memoir is out today. Love him oregon loathe him, his publication is the speech of the municipality (Johnson has a knack for attracting attraction — you whitethorn person noticed). It covers his battles with coronavirus, the travails of his canine Dilyn and his mooted program to motorboat an penetration of the Netherlands — judge it oregon not. Out now

Thought Brat summertime was over? Think again. Charli XCX’s snot greenish epoch is acceptable to rotation connected arsenic her deed medium has been reimagined entirely. Lorde and Billie Eilish person already done their bit, but perceive retired for the Tinashe and Bon Iver takes, too. Your adjacent Uber thrust is going to beryllium a jam. October 11

Emteaz Hussain’s caller play Expendable shines its airy connected the often-overlooked voices of Pakistani women, cautiously charting the stories of young girls sexually exploited by predatory gangs successful the UK’s bluish towns. Hussain says its crippled isn’t circumstantial to, say, the Rotherham ungraded — her poetic benignant offers a broader telling of these narratives — and instead, she aims to combat “the erasure and silencing of women astatine the bosom of this experience”. Not acceptable to beryllium an casual watch, then, but a profoundly affecting one. Opens November 21, royalcourttheatre.com

John Osborne’s seething, era-defining play astir people warfare — the 1 that gave emergence to the thought of “angry young men” — has been brought backmost astatine the Almeida, paired with a revival of Arnold Wesker’s Roots. Both changed theatre; if you haven’t seen them yet, take this chance. Running successful tandem, they stock a cast, with Morfydd Clark, Iwan Davies and Billy Howle appearing successful both. Until November 23, almeida.co.uk