Arcola

A Hackney local shares her Hackney highlights and laments the passing of an elderly goose.

What if one day you randomly axed a colleague to death?

A fantastical and flamboyant interpretation of Pushkin’s short story.

Learn more about the sex industry at a packed events programme at Arcola.

Further developments for Arcola, determined to be the world’s first carbon neutral theatre

A series of verbatim stories from those living in parts of the world already suffering the consequences of global warming: commendable in its intention, but lacking drama.

In which Gandhi, Shiva and Kali offer life tips to a lonely housewife. May not be based on actual events…

Palace of the End, a triptych of monologues by the Canadian playwright Judith Thompson, deals with the disturbing and emotive subject of the Iraq war. It’s timely coming in the wake of new Wikileak revelations of torture and abuse in the country. Told through the …

Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall is a tight, intense drama about race, madness and the NHS. Originally staged ten years ago with an all male cast, this revival at Arcola by Tiata Fahodzi casts all women and attempts to filter the issues through a uniquely African …

We have come to expect the best from the Arcola Theatre and their current offering does not disappoint. Martin Crimp’s The Country is an absorbing, often fraught, exercise in the frailty and conflict inherent in human relationships. We follow an affluent doctor and his wife …