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LE MARIAGE
Jun 23 - Jul 19

Following the success of last year’s fragile!, the Cherub Theatre Company returns to the Arcola with the British premiere of this riveting two-hander by David Lescot.

A French woman. A North African man.

One year: twelve encounters: twelve chapters to invent a new life.

Everything the Home Office needs to know.

His ascent to European citizenship. Her journey into the underbelly ...

TORN
Jun 24 - Aug 2

‘You got the Whites – they’re a collective. Then there’s the Asians – they’re unified. And then there’s us. Divided. It’s deep.’

Two London lovers.

One African.

One West-Indian.

What’s the problem?

Follow your heart or honour your family?

After the cult success of its work-in-progress production at Arcola Studio 2 last year, Torn transfers to t...

HACKNEY FESTIVAL OF YOUTH THEATRE
Jul 6 - Jul 6

4 shows, 2 bands, 1 fun filled Sunday!

Arcola Youth Theatre Presents Scenes from Shakespeare's plays, interwoven with sonnets written by the actors (25 mins). Followed by: Burying your Brother in the Pavement by Jack Thorne (Channel 4 Skins) a hilarious and twisted take on death, as part of the New Connections National Theatre (45 mins).During the interva...

BEFORE THE FRINGE <BR>Edinburgh Previews Week 1

BEFORE THE FRINGE
Edinburgh Previews Week 1
Jul 21 - Jul 25

24 BRAND NEW SHOWS IN 2 WEEKS: ARCOLA OPENS ITS DOORS TO THE HOTTEST TALENT HEADING TO THE EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL.

MONDAY 21 JULY:

7.30 PM - Alcock Improv Cambridge University’s best-loved improvised comedy group – fast wit, zany characters and big laughs. You name it, we’ll make you laugh ‘til it hurts.

‘Revolutionized the comedy scene in Cambridge’ Varsity newspaper...

BEFORE THE FRINGE <BR>Edinburgh Previews Weekend

BEFORE THE FRINGE
Edinburgh Previews Weekend
Jul 26 - Jul 27

24 BRAND NEW SHOWS IN 2 WEEKS:ARCOLA OPENS ITS DOORS TO THE HOTTEST TALENT HEADING TO THE EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL.

SATURDAY 26 JULY:7.30 PM - The Bee by Matt Hartley 9.00 PM - The Bird by Al Smith

SUNDAY 27 JULY: 4.30 PM - The Bird by Al Smith 6.00 PM - The Bee by Matt Hartley

For this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Kandinsky will be presenting two new p...

BEFORE THE FRINGE <BR>Edinburgh Previews Week 2

BEFORE THE FRINGE
Edinburgh Previews Week 2
Jul 28 - Aug 2

24 BRAND NEW SHOWS IN 2 WEEKS:ARCOLA OPENS ITS DOORS TO THE HOTTEST TALENT HEADING TO THE EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL.

MONDAY 28 JULY:

7.30 PM - Who Writes This Crap? By Luke Wright and Joel Stickley All the rubbish you read in a day rewritten. Adverts, newspapers, small print, spam – bad writing is everywhere. Let's fight back. Starring Aisle16's Luke Wright &...

GRIMEBORN
An Opera Festival Week 1
Aug 4 - Aug 9

After its successful launch last year, GRIMEBORN – An Opera Season is back at Arcola for three weeks of theatrical innovation from the frontline of contemporary music and performance.

Grimeborn was conceived to give young companies and old masters the opportunity to show their work in a venue that appreciates the diversity of theatrical forms and highlight the performance as much as the...

GRIMEBORN
An Opera Festival Week 2
Aug 11 - Aug 16

Monday 11 August

ASH‘Ash’ is a black comedy about staying young forever. Daughter Sarah is an angry teenager, rebelling against her mother’s controlling influence by playing organ in a crematorium. Her mother Louise is in reckless pursuit of a man 20 years younger than herself: A man who proves to be little more than a fantasy, an image of death. With the action moving from oper...

GRIMEBORN
An Opera Festival Week 3
Aug 18 - Aug 23

Monday 18 August

THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERAA dramatisation of an excerpt from the song cycle “Acts of beauty”, by the composer of “The Piano”. Composer: Michael Nyman Director: Nigel Lowery

KASPAR HAUSERAlmost two hundred years ago a teenage boy appeared on the Streets of Nuremberg. He could hardly speak but knew how to write his name, Kaspar Hauser. Theories and speculation ...

WELCOME TO RAMALLAH
Sep 23 - Oct 18

A new play by Sonja Linden and Adah Kay Directed by Sue Lefton Produced by iceandfire It’s late afternoon when a Jewish woman arrives at her sister’s home in the occupied city of Ramallah. Dusk settles and with the call to prayer come neighbours, an uncle and nephew, to greet the new arrival. As night falls an unexpected curfew prompts the sharing of old stories that threaten to tear apart the fra...