Gigi & Dar
‘Private Gigi, One Direction are here – naked – awaiting your command.’ A roadblock. Two young women armed with machine guns and Nutella. Days away from finishing the army. Gigi has a secret. Dar dreamt she’d be shot today. And there’s a strange vehicle heading their way… Well, that’s okay. Nothing ever happens here. Right? The …
Rose Matafeo On and On and On
Do you ever feel like you’re meeting yourself again and again in a bad way? Rose Matafeo (2018 Edinburgh Comedy Award winner and creator of BBC series Starstruck) traipses around the Arcola for a three-week run of her newest show.
Jhalak Review
Jhalak Review’s Gathering of Hope, Resistance and Joy An evening of discussion, chat and drinks to celebrate the publication of the Jhalak Review, produced by and featuring writers of the global majority, in and beyond UK. In her extraordinary essay collection, Some of Us Did Not Die (2002), poet and writer, June Jordan asks, “And …
Ali Doğan Gönültas
Ali Doğan Gönültaş sings and plays tembur and acoustic guitar. He is also an extremelly gifted arranger, artistic producer and composer. He was born in Kiğı, Eastern Anatolia, in a family for which, as most of the Alevi ones, music is anessential way of transmitting the history of hispeople. The emotion in his expressive voice, …
Women Who Blow On Knots
Arcola’s co-founder Leyla Nazli (Mare Rider) adapts Ece Temelkuran’s celebrated novel Women Who Blow on Knots for the stage, presenting a powerful tale of freedom, resilience, and unbreakable female friendships.
Diary of a Gay Disaster
The comedy musical of your Sapphic dreams! Ellis wakes up in a turbulent fever dream created by the Gods of Sapphic Desire. Mia and Finlay, self-proclaimed expert angel dykes, say she’s expected to “reflect” on her life or some crap like that. One magic diary and twelve comical tunes later, these three hot queers learn …
Distant Memories of the Near Future
Critically-acclaimed intertwining love stories set in a dystopian future. An isolated tech mogul tries to turn love into an algorithm. A jaded consumer confronts their loneliness. An astronaut is trapped in the cosmos. Distant Memories of the Near Future is a piece of multimedia storytelling-theatre featuring projection, video, audio and puppetry to tell five interweaving …
Cutting the Tightrope: The Divorce of Politics from Art
A collection of short plays from award-winning playwrights in response to the rising threat to freedom of expression in the arts and the Arts Council warning about “political statements”.
Happy Days
Beckett’s Happy Days is an Absurdist play about Winnie, half buried in earth, talking to herself and taciturn Willie, whilst doing mundane tasks, avoiding thinking of her situation or death. Happy Days, named by, The Independent as one of the 40 best plays of all time, is by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett and first performed …