31 January 2022

Direct from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, an urgent new play by Michael Mears exploring the events surrounding the catastrophic ‘mistake’ that launched our nuclear age. 1942. On a squash court in Chicago a dazzling scientific experiment takes place, which three years later will destroy a city and change the world – forever. Through the lives …

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16 November – 10 December 2022

Two men, together, on the edge of heaven. In a strange restaurant, two American giants who revere each other, Groucho Marx and T.S.Eliot, meet for dinner. Both in their own ways great defiant spirits, they create magic and anarchy, revealing secrets and sorrows. The evening is presided over by the Proprietor, who seems to control the workings of the universe. Or does she?

4 December 2022

Uncle Glen’s Menagerie returns to the Arcola Theatre! 

This is the show that throws two performers together for the first time. One has the script. The other knows nothing…

Hosted by ‘the reigning queen of character comedy’ (Evening Standard) Alison Thea-Skot.