Choreographer Krzysztof Pastor's take on Shakespeare's great love story, for Scottish Ballet, is a crisp, exciting two-hour show, updated to 20th-century Italy with fashions from various decades and contemporary references such as the 1980 terrorist attack on Bologna Station. Look out for Juliet's dramatic introduction.

• His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen, 7:30pm, 01224 641122

THEATRE: THE DRAWER BOY

Michael Healey's play is an exquisite study of how the human mind copes with the pain of loss through an act of creation – that is, by constructing narratives that make it more bearable. Directed here by Andy Arnold, in his first outing as the new artistic director of the Tron theatre, the play features three terrific performances – Brian Ferguson plays the naïve actor who ends up living on a farm with Benny Young and Brian Pettifer.

• Tron, Glasgow, 8pm, 0141-552 4267

THEATRE: LITTLE OTIK

Vanishing Point joins forces with the National Theatre of Scotland to present this new show based on the cult 2001 film by Czech director Jan Svankmajer, about a couple who build a child out of a tree stump, then get more than they bargained for when he comes alive.

• Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow, 7:30pm, 0141-429 0022

FILM: HEARTBEAT DETECTOR

Subtle, gripping and devastating in its implications, Nicholas Klotz's masterful thriller plays out like a dramatic re-imagining of the chilling documentary, The Corporation, which concluded that if corporations were people they would be psychopaths. Bond villain Mathieu Amalric stars.

&149 Selected release. See listings, p50

VISUAL ART: RSA ANNUAL EXHIBITION

Recently there has been a lot of rethinking about the Royal Scottish Academy's place in the art life of Scotland. The annual exhibition now has a curated section, this year assembled by Sandy Moffat; a former anti-establishment figure, he personifies the new thinking.

• RSA, Edinburgh, 10am-5pm, 0131-225 6671

MUSIC: MEURSAULT

There can't be many bands that mix apocalyptic electronica with ukuleles, and even fewer that also have a frontman with a voice as heart wrenching as that of Meursault singer Neil Pennycook, or such great songs. Go catch one of Scotland's most promising new bands.

• Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh College of Art, 7pm, 0131-229 1003

THEATRE: THE LAST OF US

What effect would imminent extinction have on your dating choices? That's the theme explored in the latest show in Oran Mor's lunchtime A Play A Pie and A Pint season. It is written by Pamela Carter, a former Suspect Culture member who went on to form her own company, Ek.

• Oran Mor, Glasgow, 12.30pm, 0141-357 6200

THEATRE: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE

Jeremy Raison directs this stage version of Ron Butlin's 1980s novel, which Irvine Welsh famously named his favourite Scottish book. It tells the story of Morris, a man who appears to be living the yuppie dream but is falling apart through alcoholism.

• Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow, 7:30pm, 0141-429 0022

THEATRE: THE WEDDING SINGER

1980s nostalgia galore as Jonathan Wilkes takes the lead role in this stage version of the popular Adam Sandler comedy, with Natalie Casey from TV comedy Two Pints of Lager And A Packet of Crisps in the Drew Barrymore role. Remember to roll up your jacket sleeves at the door.

• Playhouse, Edinburgh, 7:30pm, 0844 847 1660

VISUAL ART: ELLIPSIS

DCA's new exhibition is a group show devoted to three artists whose work consists of photographs of their own bodies – Francesca Woodman, a cult artist who took her own life in 1981, aged just 22, plus Lili Dujourie and Chantal Akerman.

• Dundee Contemporary Arts, 10:30am – 5:30pm, tel: 01382 909 900