After Sex
“Sometimes I think you’re pandering to my ego” / “That’s because sometimes I’m pandering to your ego”
Bangers
It’s club night and the tracks are spinning. Two headliners crossfade between stories of love, sex, and the power of music – set against a backdrop of precarious lives in urban London.
La bohème
Puccini’s timeless tale of love and friendship is radically repositioned as a modern tragedy of co-dependency and addiction. The creator’s of Turandot return to their first ever collaboration, La bohème, in a restaging of this groundbreaking Olivier Award nominated production.
Mr Punch at the Opera
Join Mr Punch as he and his friends help the wiley Serpina get her man. With appearances from Judy, The Crocodile, a Cheeky Monkey, a band of singing Policemen and a host of others, this is the perfect introduction to classical music for children (and grown up kids) of all ages.
Le Nozze di Figaro
Ensemble OrQuesta, this year, are expanding from the baroque repertoire to perform their 5-star production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with a star company line up headed by Marcio da Silva and Helen May as Figaro and Susanna.
The Band Back Together
A new play about growing up, coming home and making noise. The Band Back Together arrives in London after a spring tour of England and Wales. Barney Norris (Visitors, Eventide, We Started To Sing) returns to the Arcola with a raucous and tender new story full of music.
555: Verlaine en Prison
“Paul Verlaine, for shooting and injuring Arthur Rimbaud with a revolver, you are hereby sentenced to 555 days in prison!” After a critically-acclaimed run last year and performances at the Royal Opera House and La Monnaie, 555: Verlaine en Prison returns to Grimeborn! 555: Verlaine en prison tells the untold and unjust story one of …
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.
Gigi & Dar
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 world premiere of Gigi & Dar – a comic tragedy about what …
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.
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”.