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A LAMENT FOR MEDEA
A LAMENT FOR MEDEA
Jun 30 - Jul 25

Presented by Zecora Ura and The Urban Dolls Project

A flooded house is the playground, prison and sanctuary of Medea and her maid. Lost in time, locked in obsessions and stalking lost memories, this is a place to which they are bound and where lives start and finish.

An intimate barefooted experience for 20 people in a flooded room.

‘Uncannily powerful’ The...


DR KORCZAK'S EXAMPLE
DR KORCZAK'S EXAMPLE
Jun 30 - Jul 18

This Royal Exchange Theatre Production is presented by Tangram Theatre Company

Summer 1942. Warsaw Ghetto. Dr Janusz Korczak, founder of the Jewish orphanage, finds his pacifist principles pushed to the limit, not only by the Nazi regime, but by the arrival of Adzio, a spirited boy who believes in fighting back.

"I've trained them well. For a perfect world. How will they survi...


ADVENTURES IN MOVEMENT Create09 at Arcola
ADVENTURES IN MOVEMENT Create09 at Arcola
Jul 6 - Aug 2

Forty companies performing over four weeks - Arcola launches its new performance space Studio K with the Create09 Festival.

A diverse programme of dance and physical theatre remixing established companies and new performers, Adventures in Movement includes an adventure for everyone:

Ballet, boys and bikes, capoeira, a fairytale of swans and a mass exercise routine; dances explor...


MINIATURISTS 20
MINIATURISTS 20
Jul 12 - Jul 12

5 fully presented and fully formed short plays, a maximum of twenty minutes in length. Every Mini is an exceptional evening of varied themes, ideas and stories all in one show.

This month features:

Girl in a Bath by NANCY HARRIS Service by LISA MCGEE Valuing Yourself at 5.50 an hour by DEBORAH PEARSON Jig by STEPHEN SHARKEY The List by DAVID ELDRIDGE AS MENTIONED IN LYN GARDNE...


KONTAKT
KONTAKT
Jul 16 - Jul 18
Arcola Academy presents KONTAKT Based on an idea by Phil MacKenzie Directed by Owen Calvert-Lyons "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." Carl Jung How often do you get the chance to have a meaningful conversation? And what happens when you do? Kontakt is a unique opportunity to have a one-to-o...

<P>DNA & EAST END TALES </P>

DNA & EAST END TALES


Jul 19 - Jul 19

DNA by Dennis Kelly & East End Tales by Finn Kennedy

A double-bill performed by Arcola Youth Theatre Directed by Helena Easton

DNA by Dennis Kelly

Deoxyribonucleic Acid: A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. When a high school "it" group takes a joke too far, a lonely and terrified girl is missing, presumed…..?

Calling up contemporary media obsessions ...


GHOSTS <BR>or Those Who Return
GHOSTS
or Those Who Return

Jul 22 - Aug 22

By Henrik Ibsen, in a new version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Do the sins of the father visit the son?Does each man kill the thing he loves?

Mrs. Alving is ecstatic when her son Osvald returns to his Norwegian roots after years abroad. He comes back to celebrate the heroic memory of his dead father. Within days of his return Mrs. Alving is forced to unearth the past and the uncomfor...


DIRT
DIRT
Jul 27 - Aug 15

The London Premiere

An Iraqi immigrant tells his story. His name is Sad. He lives here illegally. At night he walks our streets and sells roses. He loves to speak English but nobody listens. Will you?

Critically acclaimed in New York, Vienna and Edinburgh, this one-man show explores what it means to be ‘invisible’ in our society.

Written by Robert Schneider Performed by...


GRIMEBORN 2009
GRIMEBORN 2009
Aug 24 - Sep 5
Love, sex, death, football, goddesses, clowns, faeries and drag queens. Yes, the Arcola is off to the opera again with GRIMEBORN 2009! Twenty-six fantastic companies from all over the world will rip apart classics, show raw new work and re-arrange modern music to really get to the heart of what opera can be about. "A very hip party" Domenic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph PROGRAMME Mon 24th Aug...

GRIMEBORN 2009: GALA NIGHT
GRIMEBORN 2009: GALA NIGHT
Aug 24 - Aug 24
Love, sex, death, football, goddesses, clowns, faeries and drag queens. Yes, the Arcola is off to the opera again with GRIMEBORN 2009! Twenty-six fantastic companies from all over the world will rip apart classics, show raw new work and re-arrange modern music to really get to the heart of what opera can be about. "A very hip party" Domenic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph This First Night Gala fea...

GRIMEBORN 2009: ARCOLA YOUTH PROJECT
GRIMEBORN 2009: ARCOLA YOUTH PROJECT
Aug 27 - Aug 27
The Arcola Youth Project present... THE SAVAGE (original story by David Almond) and THE ISLAND (original story by Armin Greeder). Composed, written and performed under the guidance of Jenifer Toksvik (libretto) & Nick Sutton (music)...

 

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