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Life with Oscar
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 2nd - 20th Apr 2024
In a frenetic on-stage exorcism, actor and filmmaker Nick Cohen relives his rollercoaster journey from South London to Sunset Boulevard.
When You Pass Over My Tomb
- Listing
- West End
- Arcola Theatre
- 16th Feb - 2nd Mar 2024
Three ghosts meet in a theatre.
When You Pass Over My Tomb
- Review
- ★★★★
- Carrie Goode
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 15th Feb, 2024
You know you’re in for a wild night at the Arcola Theatre when one of the content warnings is ‘Mentions of necrophilia’.
THE LAST ONE
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 23rd - 27th Jan 2024
When 24 year old Bess Malone steals from the local ice cream van she doesn’t expect it to impact her life at all, and she certainly doesn’t expect to find a new friendship with…
Electra Untitled
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 10th Dec 2023
Electra becomes a modern antihero; tangled in violence that runs for generations of patriarchal suppression.
Sputnik Sweetheart
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Arcola Theatre
- 26th Oct - 25th Nov 2023
Partly a story of love and loneliness, partly a detective story, Haruki Murakami’s novel is brought to stage by Bryony Lavery (Frozen, The Book of Dust) and Melly Still (My B…
Sputnik Sweetheart
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 26th Oct - 25th Nov 2023
Murakami’s much-loved novel about pining for the person you want and the person you want to be.
Gentlemen
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 11th Oct, 2023
From time to time a play comes along that ticks every box and gives a surprise treatment to a contemporary topic.
The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 17th Oct, 2023
The play’s excessively long title has a folktale ring to it and with only limited knowledge of Balkan history sounds like a work of comic fantasy.
The Wetsuitman
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 29th Aug - 2nd Sep 2023
Three actors, twenty-eight characters, one true story.
Union
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 19th Jul - 12th Aug 2023
A humorous odyssey through London exploring community, gentrification and the housing crisis
Possession
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Arcola Theatre
- 27th Jun - 15th Jul 2023
Possession is a tale of four mother’s lives interweaving across continents and time… Kasambayi, recently arrived in the UK from the Democratic Republic of Congo, start…
The Misandrist
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Arcola Theatre
- 10th May - 10th Jun 2023
Lisa Carroll (writer of the ‘intoxicating to watch’ Cuckoo) returns with a penetrating new comedy about the quest for true intimacy, sexual equality, and top-notch tupp…
The Mistake
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 18th - 22nd Apr 2023
Featuring two actors – Michael Mears and Emiko Jane Ishii – and partly using verbatim testimonies, The Mistake explores the circumstances surrounding the explosion of the atomi…
Under the Black Rock
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Arcola Theatre
- 2nd - 25th Mar 2023
“Yes, they haunt me, but not for one moment did I agoniseover what I did or ordered.
Under the Black Rock
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 10th Mar, 2023
Promoted as ‘a twisting and darkly comic thriller’, Under the Black Rock, at the Arcola Theatre, has each of those elements in different measures, but probably doesn’t achiev…
The Mistake
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 31st Jan - 4th Feb 2023
Featuring two actors – Michael Mears and Emiko Jane Ishii – and partly using verbatim testimonies, THE MISTAKE explores the circumstances surrounding the explosion of the atomi…
The Poltergeist
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 22nd Oct, 2022
The frantic moto perpetuo of Philip Glass’s Rubric fills the auditorium as an overture to Philip Ridley’s breathtaking work, The Poltergeist, at the Arcola Theatre.
Rainer
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 1st - 18th Jun 2022
An award-winning one woman play about gig economy work and its toll on mental health.
Fringe! presents: Writing characters: a queer creative writing workshop
- Listing Nightlife
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 13th Nov 2021
Workshop facilitated by Olumide PopoolaMost people read or watch stories not so much for plot but for company.
Broken Lad
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 13th Oct - 6th Nov 2021
Phil’s reluctant about his comeback gig.
The Tango Collective: the piazzolla project
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 11th Sep 2021
Classical music, tango and cabaret.
Songs of Resistance
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 9th Aug 2021
Following a sold-out run at the Barbican Art Gallery and a performance featuring songs from the Weimar Cabarets for Bono and Chris Martin, the “cabaret kings” return.
The Game of Love and Chance
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 20th Jul, 2021
As if so-called ‘Freedom Day’ had not generated enough excitement on Monday 19th July, the Arcola Theatre had its planned reopening that evening and showcased its fabulous new …
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 James
- 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.
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 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�…
Kenny Morgan
- Review
- ★★★
- Cal Kenny
- 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.
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.
A Steady Rain
- Review
- ★★★
- Henry St Leger
- 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.
Howard Barker Double Bill
- Review
- ★★
- Dixon Baskerville
- 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 …
Sarai
- Review
- ★★
- Lettie Mckie
- 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.
Madama Butterfly
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Lettie Mckie
- 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.
Clarion
- Review
- ★★★
- Laura Cress
- 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 …
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 th…
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