This fantastic laugh-out-loud comedy explores sexuality, transvestism, same-sex attraction, love and deceit with light-hearted farce combined with amazing complexity of plot. It was written four centuries ago, by the Roman Catholic priest Tirso de Molina, who actually became head of his monastery in Spain. Things did not go easy for Tirso in his day in the Church or theatre as he struggled to combine his vocation with his gift as a playwright which puts him up there with Shakespeare and the … [Read more...]
Arcola Theatre Off West End London E8 3DL
Arcola presents major artists alongside cutting-edge work from some of the most exciting emerging companies.
Arcola has been a launch pad for artists including Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Alecky Blythe (who had their first plays produced here), Lyndsey Turner, Lucy Kirkwood and Joe Sims.
World-renowned playwrights including Bonnie Greer, Frank McGuinness and Sam Shepard have premiered work at Arcola.
Arcola’s programme is locally engaged and internationally minded. They 'believe that diversity makes for better art, and for a more flourishing arts scene.'
Every year through ArcolaLAB, the Arcola 'provide 26 weeks of free rehearsal space to emerging theatre-makers and artists of colour'.
Two-thirds of the productions in the Arcola's last season 'were led by women as writers, directors and producers, and one-third of our productions are led by diverse artists.'
Arcola Theatre
24 Ashwin Street, Dalston,
London, E8 3DL
https://www.arcolatheatre.com/
The Arcola Theatre is just 2 minutes’ walk from both Dalston Kingsland and Dalston Junction stations, on the London Overground.
ADINI SÖYLE / SAY YOUR NAME at the Arcola Theatre
ADINI SÖYLE / SAY YOUR NAME is the new production from Ala - Turka, Arcola’s Turkish and Kurdish Language Theatre Group. It is part of Arcola Creative Engagement Winter Festival 2014, the play is performed in Turkish with English surtitles. On 28th May 2013, a few hundred people from very different walks of life gathered at Istanbul’s Gezi Park. It was no different than the other anti-government protests happening throughout the world. People wanted to protect the trees, protest against the … [Read more...]
The Spanish Golden Age Season at The Arcola Theatre
Arcola Theatre, Theatre Royal Bath and Belgrade Theatre Coventry present The Spanish Golden Age Season from Thursday 9th January to Saturday 15th March 2014 at the Arcola Theatre. Arcola Theatre is pleased to present the Spanish Golden Age Season, a repertory season celebrating one of the most creative periods in the history of Spanish theatre and art, from Thursday 9 January to Saturday 15 March 2014. The Spanish Golden Age Season will present three passionate classics: two comedies, one … [Read more...]
Lizzie Siddal a new play by Jeremy Green at the Arcola Theatre
London, 1849. Lizzie is plucked from the obscurity of a bonnet shop to model for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - an intoxicating group of young painters bent on revolutionising the Victorian art world. Inspired by their passion, Lizzie throws herself headlong into their lives and their art. She nearly dies in the creation of 'Ophelia', but the painting is a triumph. Lizzie wants more and dares to dream of being an artist in her own right. Falling in love with the charismatic Dante Gabriel … [Read more...]
Titus Andronicus Hiraeth Artistic Productions at the Arcola Theatre
You have to be a little cracked to stage this early and savagely raw play of Shakespeare’s. A kind of craziness is an essential mental and emotional component of a director setting foot on its gory landscape because that is the mindset of the majority of the characters who live there. Understand this, inhabit their wild-eyed vision and abused, abusing bodies and you have the key to the play’s scheme, if scheme it can be called. Watching Zoe Ford’s production at the Arcola’s suitably … [Read more...]
Review of Freedom the play at the Arcola Theatre
“Freedom is a tense and powerful drama, punctuated by dark humour and tragic romance” The story is set between Tajikistan and England, and follows three characters forced to choose between their own freedom and that of each other. The innovative stage scenery is split between the two countries and it works very well. Without giving too much away from the plot, the play is as follows: Benham, is a Tajik opium farmer who is desperately trying to do the best he can for his family in a country … [Read more...]