Tag: Arcola Theatre

Rehabilitating a sexist opera: <em> The Rape of Lucretia </em> at the Arcola Theatre

Rehabilitating a sexist opera: The Rape of Lucretia at the Arcola Theatre

Director Julia Burbach promises to reimagine Lucretia for the Me Too era, yet quite how she would pull this off was puzzling some audience members in the Arcola bar before ...

by smffearn • 8th August 20188th August 2018

Arts & Culture, Interviews, Technology

Interview: Playwright Rabiah Hussain, author of Spun at Arcola Theatre

Rabiah Hussain had given up on having her debut play performed. As a second generation British Pakistani writer she’d found that theatre programmers expected plays about terrorism and fundamentalism. She ...

by smffearn • 27th June 201815th January 2026

Master of Confrontation: <em>Not Talking</em> at the Arcola Theatre

Arts & Culture

Master of Confrontation: Not Talking at the Arcola Theatre

In 2005, Mike Bartlett’s formally experimental Not Talking found a home on BBC Radio 3 after being rejected from multiple theatres. In 2018 – amazingly – it is being performed ...

by Simon Fearn • 12th May 2018

Call Things By Their Proper Name: <em>The Plague</em> at the Arcola Theatre

Arts & Culture

Call Things By Their Proper Name: The Plague at the Arcola Theatre

Neil Bartlett’s take on Albert Camus’ seminal novel is bold and effective – even if it sacrifices some important scenes in the name of economy.

by Simon Fearn • 18th April 201718th April 2017

Vonnegut in Hackney: <em>How To Make Your Soul Grow</em> at the Arcola Theatre

Arts & Culture, Technology

Vonnegut in Hackney: How To Make Your Soul Grow at the Arcola Theatre

In 2006, Kurt Vonnegut told a class of schoolchildren how art could benefit their souls. Now, at the Arcola Theatre, fifty East London teens show that they have heeded his ...

by Xenobe • 8th July 201415th January 2026

Arts & Culture

“The Theatre Is A Mirror”: The Spanish Golden Age Season at the Arcola Theatre

Hispanicist-in-residence Charlotte Fereday surveys the Arcola’s revival of three Spanish Golden Age plays.

by CharlotteBRF • 13th February 201414th February 2014

Reflections on Gezi Park: <em>Adini Söyle (Say Your Name)</em> at the Arcola Theatre

Arts & Culture

Reflections on Gezi Park: Adini Söyle (Say Your Name) at the Arcola Theatre

Adini Söyle (Say Your Name), at the Arcola Theatre, gives a comprehensive digest of Istanbul’s 2013 Gezi Park protests. It’s a shame that it told more than it showed, argues ...

by michael-reffold • 9th January 20149th January 2014

Arts & Culture

To The Grime Born: The Arcola Theatre Brings Opera To The Streets

Grimeborn Festival, a season of unorthodox operas at London’s Arcola Theatre, may take its name from Glyndebourne, but Lochlan Bloom will be surprised if it shares many of its visitors…

by lochlanb • 15th August 201315th August 2013

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