The Band Back Together
A new play about growing up, coming home and making noise. The Band Back Together arrives in London after a spring tour of England and Wales. Barney Norris (Visitors, Eventide, We Started To Sing) returns to the Arcola with a raucous and tender new story full of music.
Rose Matafeo On and On and On
Do you ever feel like you’re meeting yourself again and again in a bad way? Rose Matafeo (2018 Edinburgh Comedy Award winner and creator of BBC series Starstruck) traipses around the Arcola for a three-week run of her newest show.
Gigi & Dar
‘Private Gigi, One Direction are here – naked – awaiting your command.’ A roadblock. Two young women armed with machine guns and Nutella. Days away from finishing the army. Gigi has a secret. Dar dreamt she’d be shot today. And there’s a strange vehicle heading their way… Well, that’s okay. Nothing ever happens here. Right? The …
Ali Doğan Gönültas
Ali Doğan Gönültaş sings and plays tembur and acoustic guitar. He is also an extremelly gifted arranger, artistic producer and composer. He was born in Kiğı, Eastern Anatolia, in a family for which, as most of the Alevi ones, music is anessential way of transmitting the history of hispeople. The emotion in his expressive voice, …
Women Who Blow On Knots
Arcola’s co-founder Leyla Nazli (Mare Rider) adapts Ece Temelkuran’s celebrated novel Women Who Blow on Knots for the stage, presenting a powerful tale of freedom, resilience, and unbreakable female friendships.
Cutting the Tightrope: The Divorce of Politics from Art
A collection of short plays from award-winning playwrights in response to the rising threat to freedom of expression in the arts and the Arts Council warning about “political statements”.