We’re so excited for you to see our new season, spanning September 2026 to February 2027 and featuring five bold productions.
We’ve brought together plays that confront individuals at moments of moral and emotional reckoning, asking what it means to act responsibly in a world marked by fear, instability and change.
At the heart of the season we have The Master Builder – a striking new staging of Henrik Ibsen’s masterpiece exploring ambition and legacy, from Arcola’s Artistic Director Mehmet Ergen and starring Olivier Award-nominated actor Greg Hicks (Coriolanus, Old Vic) in an English version by David Edgar.
Arthur Miller’s rarely-performed Incident at Vichy continues the season’s examination of individuals confronted by forces far greater than themselves, in a revival from Olivier and Tony Award-nominated director Melly Still (Coram Boy, National Theatre).
Julia Pascal’s new play The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt, France, 1940 brings a vital female perspective to the politics of displacement and survival, blending cabaret, physical theatre and satire to tell the stories of political theorist Hannah Arendt, artist Charlotte Salomon, and Communist schoolgirl Eva Daube.
Directed by Jennifer Tang, John Webber’s explosive two-hander Fire Fire examines how personal loss collides with urgent calls for collective action in a new production from Webber & Co. with Metal Rabbit in association with Harlow Playhouse.
And to bring in the spooky season, we have Henry James’ gothic classic The Turn of the Screw. Adapted by Olivier Award-winning playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (Emilia) and directed by Nicky Allpress, premiering at Arcola before a UK-wide tour, this production offers audiences a haunting thriller this October.
Browse the whole season here – we look forward to seeing you in September!