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Women's Writes International Women's Day
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 8th - 8th Mar 2020
Prepare to see 6 short plays by female identifying playwrights with none of those boring archetypal forms.
A Hero of Our Time
- Review
- ★★★★
- Christopher Kelsey
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 24th Nov, 2018
Mikhail Lermentov’s novel A Hero of Our Time has been newly adapted for the stage by Oliver Bennett, who also plays the lead - Pechorin, and Vladimir Shcherban. This is a modern-ish retelling of the Russian story full of current references alongside characterisations that would not look out of place at any local club whilst at the same time not losing any of its heritage…
Evros | The Crossing River
- Listing Theatre
- World Tours
- Aberystwyth Arts Centre / Arcola Theatre / Kampala International Theatre Festival
- 19th Oct - 28th Nov 2018
Follow Doaa who dreams of a better life amongst a backdrop of war, terror and enduring love. The boy from the local garden centre, whose tranquil existence amongst the flowers is torn apart…
The Daughter-in-Law
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 23rd May - 23rd Jun 2018
A rare production of D H Lawrence’s The Daughter-in-Law, a searing and unforgettable drama about heartache, inequality and the ties that bind, set in the heat of the 1912 miners’ strike, is receiving its first London production in over 15 years, staged in the round...
Kenny Morgan
- Review
- ★★★
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 25th May, 2016
When a smell of gas emerges from flat three of a boarding house in Camden, the residents gather to find the body of a resident, Kenny Morgan, laid out by the fire. He is alive still; the meter has run out and though weak, he pulls through...
Tinned Goods
- Review
- ★★
- Pete Shaw
- UK Regional & Tours
- Arcola Theatre / Greenwich Theatre / Nottingham Arts Theatre
- 31st Mar, 2016
It’s 1984 and the effects of the six-month-old Miner’s Strike is really starting to bite.
Women Redressed
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 20th Mar 2016
After a sell-out run in November, Women Redressed returns. The aptly named festival, showcasing new writing and excerpts from published plays, plants female characters centre stage and probes our perceptions and expectations of gender.
A Steady Rain
- Review
- ★★★
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 19th Feb, 2016
Keith Huff's best-known work is found in the hallowed spaces of US television, as a writer for potent office dramas such as AMC's Mad Men and Netflix's House of Cards. But before this was A Steady Rain, Huff's 2009 Broadway debut about the love and anger of two best friends struggling to keep their jobs in the Chicago Police Department intact...
Howard Barker Double Bill
- Review
- ★★
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 8th Dec, 2015
This double bill of Howard Barker’s work features the London premiere of The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo alongside a revival of Judith: A Parting from the Body, both directed by Robyn Winfield-Smith...
Sarai
- Review
- ★★
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 27th Oct, 2015
Sarai, currently showing at the Arcola Theatre is a confused blend of spoken word set to music, contemporary dance and characterised monologue. Although the premise is interesting, a contemporary retelling of the biblical tale of Abraham as seen through his wife Sarah’s eyes, the amalgamation of these disparate modes of storytelling make it meandering and dull...
Madama Butterfly
- Review
- ★★★★★
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 28th Aug, 2015
Puccini’s iconic opera Madame Butterfly gets a gothic makeover at this year’s Grimeborn, the Arcola’s opera season. With £15 ticket prices and further discounts available when booking multiple shows Grimeborn aims to introduce new audiences to the art form...
Clarion
- Review
- ★★★
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 24th Apr, 2015
Like the best headline grabbers, Clarion, a play at the Arcola Theatre about a fictional hated British newspaper, shines the most when full of punchy, clever zingers striking left right and centre column...
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 18th Jun - 19th Jul 2014
"When the children are asleep we’ll sit and dream" Voted the best musical of the 20th Century by Time Magazine, Carousel is the classic American musical, with a timeless score that includes the songs If I Loved You, June Is Bustin’ Out All Over and the iconic You’ll Never Walk Alone...
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