The Island Nation, opening this month at the Arcola, revisits the Sri Lankan civil war to address a ‘black hole in history’
Opera gets back to its experimental roots at the Arcola’s annual festival
Opera festival presents sixteen new pieces of music theatre including new works and reinvigorated classics
Arcola production enacts a border-crossing using a replica of the type of container used to escape conflict in countries such as Syria and Afghanistan
Mike Poulton’s play about Terence Rattigan’s secret lover does a stellar job of conveying the post-war prejudice and emotional reticence of 1940s Britain
Fed up with the state of theatre for women, two friends founded their own company placing female characters centre stage
American police drama by Mad Men and House of Cards writer Keith Huff is compelling but plot veers too close to cliché
The Oscar-winning co-writer of Ida returns to the Arcola with Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern, a play about one of the last witch trials in England
Arcola production about R.D. Laing’s 1960s mental health commune examines the nature of psychiatry while remaining at its core a domestic farce
A new play at the Arcola looks at the legacy of the ‘anti-psychiatrist’ whose mental illness centre in Bow became notorious for its controversial methods
One woman show at Dalston’s Arcola Theatre is a tour de force
Poetry hotshots spit out their rhymes in a battle for poetry supremacy in Octagon at the Arcola
