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Jul 14 - Aug 7 |
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★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ The Times
★★★★ Metro
★★★★ WhatsOnStage
★★★★ musicOMH
‘Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth’
1649. After years of bloody civil conflict, an exhausted England is... |
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Jul 16 - Aug 14 |
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Hotel Medea is back! Developed, updated and on tour - if you couldn't get a ticket at the Arcola last year and can't catch it in Brazil this spring, don't miss it this July in its site-specific reincarnation as part of LIFT, starting from the North Greenwich Pier (formerly the QEII Pier) at the O2.
A provocative interpretation of the dark revenge myth of Medea, running from midnight ti... |
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Jul 16 - Aug 14 |
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Tickets for part 1 will be available from June
Hotel Medea is back! Developed, updated and on tour - if
you couldn't get a ticket at the Arcola last year and can't catch it in Brazil
this spring, don't miss it this July in its site-specific reincarnation as part
of LIFT, starting from the North Greenwich Pier (formerly the QEII Pier) at the O2.
A provocative i... |
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Jul 28 - Aug 7 |
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C-12 Dance Theatre brings to you a thrilling double bill of dance-inspired physical theatre
The Chair. Murder, torture and forgiveness explored through one man’s discovery of his past – a journey into one man’s existence of justice.
Enough. This physical and passionate, duet delves into the inner most thoughts, wishes and desires, exploring the struggle to release the burden inside. ... |
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Jul 31 - Aug 1 |
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Three weekends
Nine writers
30 minute plays
Made in Hackney.
Each weekend will feature three plays by three of Hackney’s best playwrights. These complete, short works are the culmination of the Arcola Writers’ Group workshops, and are dedicated to honing the talents of writers from a range of backgrounds and abilities. ... |
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Aug 6 - Aug 7 |
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Performances from Hackney Young People ages 13 – 19
Directed by Mehmet Ergen
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Aug 9 - Aug 21 |
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Cocteau, Crows and Edgar Allen Poe; Britten, butchery, baritones and blood. Young tongues licking life into old lyrics.Fresh works given birth before your ears.There must be feathers on the bird...
GRIMEBORN IS BACK
Grimeborn - The Opera Festival Curated by Andrew Steggall
Monday 9th August and Tuesday 10th August Britten – THE PRODIGAL SON Mendelssohn – THE HOMECOMING
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Aug 24 - Aug 28 |
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“Sometimes when I watch humans I tend to forget that I am one of them, I drown in a disturbing dilemma of judgment, I lose the notion of time and space and pretend that everyone is blind, just like a film camera”
Henrik Ibsen is lost between being considered one of the founders of modern theatre and a pioneer in realism; he takes us on a journey to see the world of the theatre through his ... |
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Aug 31 - Sep 4 |
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An adaptation of Ernest Hemmingway's world renowned novella.
4 days, 2 gladiators, 1 death.
Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize winning novel adapted for the stage. A swaggering tale full of so much yearning that you can hear it squeak.
Awarded an Argus Angel for Artistic Excellence at the Brighton Festival Fringe.
The most wonderful visual piece of theatre to hit this y... |
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Sep 2 - Sep 25 |
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A hopeful young man, a teacher in love, a pregnant woman, A fearful policeman, a boy on a mission, a pianist in the rain.A wounded man, a grandmother…And Vincent.
Nine lives fractured by the events of one tragic day.
David Watson’s thrilling new play tells the story of Vincent, a man estranged from his family and adrift in London. Reunited temporarily with his lost love, he finds hims... |
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Sep 7 - Oct 2 |
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“By what right do you burn my art?” Egon Schiele.
Reclining Nude with Black Stockings portrays the extraordinary and perverse trial of the young painter and genius, Egon Schiele, for allegedly seducing his 13 year old model.
Gustav Klimt, his mentor, guides us through the world of decadent Vienna as it rushes towards the butchery of the Great War. The failed landscape artist, Adolf Hi... |
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Sep 28 - Oct 23 |
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“There’s not a limit to what can be said, only a limit to how honest we are prepared to be”
A doctor and his wife move to the country with their children to start a new life, but their rustic idyll is shattered one night by the discovery of an unconscious stranger. Who is the stranger and why was she brought to the house?
Fraught with suspense, Martin Crimp’s darkly humorous and compe... |
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Oct 26 - Nov 20 |
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“I’m beginning to think that it’s the greatest sin of our time. Knowing, and pretending that we don’t know”
Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Judith Thompson’s astonishing and much-acclaimed play about Iraq receives its London premiere in a new production directed by Jessica Swale (director of The Rivals, Southwark Playhouse and Bedlam, Shakespeare’s Globe).
In America, a ... |
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Oct 27 - Nov 20 |
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Joe Penhall’s multi-award-winning Blue/Orange is a contemporary classic. Tiata Fahodzi’s radically new all-female production delivers a uniquely African perspective.
Blue/Orange is a passionate, witty and ultimately devastating exploration of institutional politics, mental health and race. Unfolding like a game of human chess the drama centres on a patient alternately bewildering and be... |
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Nov 18 - Nov 19 |
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Euro-Japan Theatre and Theatre Du Signe present two performances of Shakespeare’s comedy The Merchant of Venice. Best remembered for the character Shylock the Moneylender and the ‘pound of flesh’, this production will be performed entirely by Japanese performers, in Japanese with English subtitles.
ON SALE MONDAY 2 AUGUST ... |
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Nov 23 - Dec 18 |
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Part of the 10th Anniversay Musical Double Bill with The Cradle Will Rock.
Spoofing everything from facist European dictators to bigots in the Daughters of the American Revolution organisation, Pins and Needles is the hit 1937 Broadway musical review with a decidedly pro-union standpoint.
Originally conceived as a small scale production for the then striking International Ladies... |
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Nov 23 - Dec 18 |
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Part of the 10th Anniversay Musical Double Bill with Pins and Needles.
'Why don't you write a piece about all kinds of prostitution - the press, the church, the courts, the arts, the whole system?' - Bertolt Brecht to Marc Blitzstein
This play with music, set in 'Steeltown, USA', The Cradle Will Rock tells the story of Larry Foreman and his attmepts to unionise and battle the vi... |
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Nov 24 - Dec 18 |
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Fed up with a lifeless marriage, Asha escapes to the India of her imagination. When Mahatma Gandhi and friends suddenly arrive for tea and jelabies, she is inspired to transform herself and reignite her relationship. As her confused husband struggles to keep the wife he once had, this playful, surprising and moving play asks if it’s better to be sane or happy?
‘Most enjoyably inventive pie... |
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