The Cutting Edge
Jack Shepherd premieres a new tragicomedy about life, money and art.
Creative Disruption Festival
New shows by Arcola’s community theatre companies – including the Arcola Participation Queer Collective; Mental Health, 50+, Ala-Turka and Women’s Companies; Academy and Youth Theatre; and Clean Break Young Artists.
They Shall Not Pass: The Battle of Cable Street
Returning to Arcola after two sold-out performances, Steven Berkoff dramatises this landmark event in East End history.
Gentlemen
Matt Parvin’s blistering new drama tests the limits of retribution and the power of social status at university.
Pipeline
A powerful and compassionate drama about parental duty and the state of education.
Broken Water
This award-nominated play from Michèle Winstanley traces three different women’s experiences of motherhood.
We Started To Sing
Barney Norris’ new play is a love song to the people who raised him, and a hymn to the bravery of our brief lives.
Death in Venice
Greg Hicks returns to Arcola Theatre in a new production from director Philip Prowse.
The Dance of Death
Multi-award-winning writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz returns to Arcola with a new adaptation of Strindberg’s compelling domestic drama.
Search Party
Award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams brings a special, audience-led poetry event to Arcola.
Women Who Blow On Knots
Arcola co-founder Leyla Nazli adapts Ece Temelkuran’s epic tale of empowerment and adventure.
Our Name Is Not John
A new black comedy from Sarah Kosar with an irresistible, patriarchal company structure.
A new play by Mark Thomas
Multi-award-winning writer, performer and provocateur Mark Thomas returns to Arcola with a new play, directed by Nicolas Kent.
Love and Apocalypse
After her award-winning 3 Winters at the National Theatre, Tena Štivičić marks Arcola’s 20th anniversary with a brand new play.
A Dead Body in Taos
David Farr’s new play is both a science fiction and an intimate study of loss and bereavement.
The Apology
Arcola reunites with Yellow Earth for this powerful human story which asks how a nation can apologise for the crimes of its past.
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