From 26 July, Grimeborn Opera Festival returns for the fifteenth year, featuring thirteen operas, four new works and ten female directors from a variety of traditional favourites and new tales from across the globe. This year, Arcola is embarking on our most ambitious Grimeborn project yet: the final two instalments of Wagner’s Ring Cycle at …
FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR FIFTEENTH YEAR FULL LINE UP ANNOUNCED WITH DOUBLE BILL OF SIEGFRIED AND GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG TO COMPLETE WAGNER’S RING CYCLE Arcola Theatre today announces the line-up of their Grimeborn Opera Festival as it returns for the fifteenth year, featuring fourteen operas, four new works and eleven female directors from a variety of traditional favourites …
Casting is today announced for the world première of Robin Hooper’s new drama Broken Lad, a comic and moving examination of masculinity in distress, directed by Richard Speir. It is Arcola Theatre’s second production at their new venue, Arcola Outside. Broken Lad runs from 13 October – 6 November, 2021. Press night: Monday 18 October …
From September – November, Arcola presents the next part in their Today I’m Wiser festival programme of outdoor art and performance. Arcola Theatre’s new outdoor performance space, Arcola Outside, designed by award-winning designer Jon Bausor is home to the Today I’m Wiser festival. Featuring the premiere of Robin Hooper’s comic and moving play Broken Lad, …
The full casting has been announced today for Arcola’s first production in its new outdoor venue, Arcola Outside: a raucous adaptation of Pierre de Marivaux’s romantic comedy, The Game of Love and Chance. This brand new version by Quentin Beroud and Jack Gamble brings Marivaux’s classic comedy of love and class into a modern world …
From June – November, Arcola presents a programme of outdoor performance. Featuring an Arcola production of a new adaptation of Pierre de Marivaux’s romantic comedy, The Game of Love and Chance. With special collaborations including Tower Theatre, Arcola Participation companies and Coram, a charity working to improve the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children …
This production has been postponed until autumn 2021. Dates and tickets will be announced soon. Arcola is collaborating with Barn Theatre in Cirencester to co-produce the world premiere of Cat Goscovitch’s new play, A Russian Doll. Based on a true story, the play follows a young woman, Masha, as she becomes embroiled in the world …
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We’re pleased to announce that Arcola Theatre has been awarded £148,080 from the second round of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF). This vital grant will support Arcola between April and June 2021, as we work to recover from the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. It will enable us to: Open Arcola Outside …
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We have today announced that our artistic team will be working with scientists from Imperial College London to explore air quality in theatres and how this affects aerosol transmission of viruses such as Covid-19. As theatres and arts venues continue to navigate audience welfare amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the project will explore how increased …
We have today announced plans to build Arcola Outside, a brand-new outdoor performance space and bar in the heart of Dalston, designed by multi-award-winning stage designer Jon Bausor, and built by a team of freelance theatre and live events technicians. Scheduled to open for a series of trial performances in December 2020, the new space …
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We are really pleased to share the news today that our application to the Culture Recovery Fund has been successful, and Arcola will receive a grant to help us survive for the next six months.
The Rt Hon Olivier Dowden CBESecretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport100 Parliament StreetLondonSW1 2BQ Dear Oliver Dowden, Secretary of State for Culture, Throughout the last decade, British theatre has led the world with regard to the Black, Asian and ethnic diversity on our stages. Many of those actors are now international names: …
The full casting has been announced today for the European première of Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline, directed by Jack Gamble, which opens at Arcola Theatre on 31 March, with previews from 26 March. Pipeline is a powerful and compassionate drama about parental duty and the state of education. Dominique Morisseau (Sunset Baby, Gate Theatre) is a …
The full casting has been announced today for the world première of Matt Parvin’s new drama Gentlemen, directed by Richard Speir, which opens at Arcola Theatre on 24 March, with previews from 18 March. Testing the limits of retribution and the power of social status at university, Gentlemen examines what happens when culture turns toxic, …
Arcola Theatre today announces the full cast for the world premiere of The Cutting Edge, a tragicomedy about life, money and art written and directed by Jack Shepherd. The play stars James Clyde (Peter), Michael Feast (Zak), Jasmine Hyde (Anna), Maggie Steed (Elvira) and David Sturzaker (Chris). The creative team includes Louie Whitemore (Designer), Richard …
New, year-long season celebrates 20 years of Arcola 11 world premieres – from artists who helped shape Arcola’s first two decades, including Jack Shepherd, Barney Norris, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Leyla Nazli, David Farr and Tena Štivičić, and from a new generation European premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline, a new staging of Death In Venice starring Greg …
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Hackney’s diverse community will take centre stage at Arcola Theatre in February and March 2020. The Creative Disruption Festival will feature ten productions performed by members of the theatre’s award-winning youth, schools and community programme. Arcola Participation creates over 13,000 opportunities a year for local people and young artists to get involved in the performing …
Arcola Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company today announce the full cast for the London première of Pippa Hill and Sophie Ivatts’ adaptation of #WeAreArrested by Can Dündar, a vital story about the cost of reporting the truth in the age of fake news. Ivatts directs Jamie Cameron (Son), Peter Hamilton Dyer (Can) and Indra …
Arcola Theatre and Jump Spark today announce the full cast for Amanda Lomas‘ bold new imagining of Hunger, adapted from the ground-breaking psychological novel by Knut Hamsun. Fay Lomas directs Archie Backhouse (Hans), Katie Eldred (Ylayali), Kwami Odoom (The Young Man) and Jessica Tomlinson (Landlady). The production opens on 25 November, with previews from 20 …
Arcola Theatre’s production of Until The Flood, Dael Orlandersmith’s powerful one-woman play about the Ferguson community in the aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown in 2014, has been awarded a Scotsman Fringe First Award and a Stage Edinburgh Award. Fringe Firsts are awarded by The Scotsman newspaper, in partnership with the University of Edinburgh, for …
Arcola wins Fringe First and Stage Edinburgh Award for UNTIL THE FLOOD Read More »