Articles in the Arcola Theatre Category

Tombstone Tales and Boothill Ballads
By Stephe Harrop | 21-11-08

“Are you on your own? Would you like to sit here?” The last time I heard those words I was about to come in for the combined attentions of the…

Sueño Lorca - Lorca Dreams
By Stephe Harrop | 01-09-08

Lorca Dreams is a strange and playfully morbid fantasia on the life and works of Federico García Lorca. Performed in Spanish with English surtitles, the piece weaves together extracts from the…

Elephant’s Child
By Stephe Harrop | 27-08-08

In The Elephant’s Child and Just So from Metta Theatre, a company of eight present a series of semi-improvised animal fables, followed by a puppet-opera explaining the origin of the pachyderm’s proboscis.…

Torn
By Jens Peters | 25-07-08

The story told by Femi Oguns in the new production at the Acola Theatre is at least as old as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Torn revolves around a love story between…

Le Mariage
By Jens Peters | 01-07-08

France 2007. The new president Sarkozy has just introduced a target of 25,000 illegal immigrants to be deported by the end of the year. But not everybody is willing to…

Wolves at the Window
By Stephe Harrop | 31-05-08

Wolves at the Window is built around the satiric tales of Saki (or Hector Hugh Monroe), who delighted in savaging the facade of Edwardian respectability, contrasting nature’s tooth and claw with…

The Only Girl in the World
By Stephe Harrop | 04-05-08

The Only Girl in the World is a poignant three-hander, telling the story of Joe and Mary, who fall in love and fall apart, while a serial killer stalks the streets…

Review: 4:48 Psychosis
By Andrew Eglinton | 01-05-06

4:48 Psychosis is Sarah Kane’s final play in a body of work that changed the UK/international theatre landscape of the 90’s and continues to grow as new companies and directors explore…