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In bustling St Pancras train station, Georgie, a free spirit, impulsively plants a kiss on the neck of Alex, a reserved 70-year-old woman sitting on a bench. When Georgie unexpectedly reappears at Alex’s shop, the older woman is drawn into her unpredictable world, and her once quiet, orderly existence bursts into chaos and newfound vibrancy. …
A scandalous, engrossing tale of sexual politics and family strife in modern-day Nigeria adapted from Lola Shoneyin’s bestselling novel.
Come experience how African Theatre integrates dance, movement, and song.
It’s time to seriously play! Join Arcola Participation’s 50+ group as they explore renowned extracts from leading comedy playwrights throughout the centuries. A space to laugh, connect, and enjoy the power of comedy in an explorative setting. Led by our leading community theatre practitioners, these introductory workshops offer an opportunity to get to know our …
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It’s time to seriously play! Join Arcola Participation’s summer of fun filled discipline specific workshops. An opportunity to get stuck in, meet like minded individuals, and explore new performance based skills, or brush up on some old ones. Acting for Camera – Wednesday 7th of May (19.45 – 21.45) Queer Storytelling – Wednesday 4th of …
Due to exceptional demand, In Other Words returns to The Arcola for an exclusive one week run. Matthew Seager’s ★★★★★ 4X Moliere Award winning play, seen by over 300,000 people in multiple languages across the globe, examines the power of music, memory and the nature of enduring love.
The Reckoning is a vivid and powerful new play about war, survival and the fragile trust between those who uncover the truth and those who must live with it.
London June 2025. The fate of Africa rests solely on the zeal and chivalry of eleven adventurous friends. Their ancestral ‘mother’ gives them seven days to prove to the rest of the world that their fabulous continent is worth celebrating and not burying. Their journeys traverse 54 countries, countless boundaries, and endless risks. Lives, history, …
Green Opera, the award-winning sustainable opera company and arts charity, returns to the Grimeborn Opera Festival with TESTAMENT—a bold and thought-provoking journey through four centuries of vocal music. This immersive performance explores humanity’s evolving relationship with nature, blending timeless masterpieces with modern revelations. The evening features dramatic stagings of Monteverdi’s gripping Il combattimento di Tancredi …
Adina is beautiful, popular and doesn’t believe in true love. Nemorino is geeky, shy and in love with Adina – and with buses. When Dulcamara turns up selling the latest social media craze – The Love Effect fragrance – Nemorino thinks his dreams have come true and Adina might finally fall for him. But will …
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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.” Arcola Theatre and Green Opera proudly present John Joubert’s Jane Eyre—his final opera, now fully staged for the first time. First heard in concert with the English Symphony Orchestra under Kenneth Woods, this bold adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel follows one woman’s fight for freedom and …
Tristan und Isolde: the opera that changed music forever. A forbidden love, a deep betrayal, a wound that never heals – these are the operatic ingredients that Wagner alchemically reforged into a music drama of sublime beauty and painful intensity. Staged with the audience on three sides, this stripped back, up close, and personal view …
If ever a novel were screaming for a musical adaptation, Sense & Sensibility is the one. After 2024’s sold out run, Sense & Sensibility: The Musical comes to you in a new, intimate chamber setting, featuring outstanding international singer-actors from the UK premiere cast. Set against the stoic and judgemental values of Regency-era England, the …
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After last season’s 5-star production of Le Nozze di Figaro, Ensemble OrQuesta returns to Grimeborn with the second opera of the Da Ponte trilogy, featuring one of the most iconic lines in opera: Don Giovanni! Come enjoy another unique minimalist production by Marcio da Silva, performed by the Ensemble OrQuesta company with the orchestral accompaniment …
Catholicism and the appeal of dictatorship are never far from the surface in Puccini’s Tosca. Can revolution or religion change human nature? Can art be the agent of either, or does it merely passively record the process? Becoming Tosca, a unique and innovative lyric drama, relocates the action to an unspecific Latin American setting in …
Following last year’s sell-out success of La Traviata, Barefoot Opera return to Grimeborn Festival bringing their unique blend of ensemble storytelling and physical theatre to Donizetti’s classic gothic opera Lucia di Lammermoor. The fragility of mental health and the subjugation of a woman are at the very heart of this drama. Our heroine, Lucia, does …
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