Institute, BBC Four review – masculinity and memory in a nightmarish world of work

★★★ INSTITUTE, BBC FOUR Masculinity and memory in a nightmarish world of work

Physical theatre company Gecko's debut film is compelling and technically skilled

Missing the office? Or dreading the day you have to return? What’s your relationship to the people you work with and for, and how does it intersect with your personal life? Do your paymasters know you? Do they care about you? Are there days when the routine and the hierarchy of it all just feels like a spirit-crushing game?

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Netflix

DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY, NETFLIX Douglas Adams's sleuth rises again in a hyperactive US reboot starring Samuel Barnett

Douglas Adams's sleuth rises again in a hyperactive US reboot starring Samuel Barnett

Dirk Gently’s shtick as a detective is interconnectedness. Everything happens for an incalculable reason, there’s no such thing as chance, and all neural pathways lead randomly to the correct outcome. It's a philosophy paper gussied up as a whizzbang entertainment. “I will eventually solve the mystery merely by doing whatever,” says Dirk, having introduced himself as a detective.

The Invitation/Obsidian Tear/Within the Golden Hour, Royal Ballet

MacMillan revival in a different class to anodyne offerings from McGregor and Wheeldon

It shows you just how much Kenneth MacMillan changed ballet in this country that 1960's The Invitation, with its onstage rape, sexual grooming and child abuse, can act as the reassuring classic at the heart of the new Royal Ballet triple bill which opened on Saturday.

Frankenstein, Royal Ballet

FRANKENSTEIN, ROYAL BALLET New ballet has lavish production values, but the story's stretched thin

New ballet has lavish production values, but the story's stretched thin

Another year, another new full-length story ballet from one of the Royal Ballet's in-house choreographers. Time was – a long time, in fact, up to 2011 – when that would have sounded like science fiction, but no longer: Liam Scarlett, whose Frankenstein premiered last night at the Opera House, is treading a path worn smooth in the past five years by Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne McGregor and Carlos Acosta.

Preview: International Dance Festival Birmingham 2016

PREVIEW: INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL BIRMINGHAM 2016 Rich cultural programme in England's second city aims to stimulate economy, promote gender equality

Rich cultural programme in England's second city aims to stimulate economy, promote gender equality

International Dance Festival Birmingham (IDFB) is one of the unsung heroes not just of dance in Britain, but of festivals. It treats anyone within striking distance of the West Midlands to an exciting range of performers and public dance events over three weeks, and is cleverly scheduled in May – when lengthening days and bank holidays make us want to go out and have a good time, but it's not quite warm enough for camping.