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Posts Tagged ‘Arcola’

As Long As We Are Breathing, Arcola Theatre, stage review: ‘Deeply heartbreaking yet soaringly uplifting’

By Gabriel Wilding | Monday 17 February 2025 at 13:14

This new work by Diane Samuels leaves you ‘grateful for every gulp of air’

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The Band Back Together, Arcola Theatre, stage review: ‘The preciousness of youth’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 13 September 2024 at 09:20

Writer and director Barney Norris’s tale of fractured friendship stirs up our own halcyon days

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Bangers, Arcola Theatre, stage review: ‘With a little bit of luck, we can make it through the night’

By Gabriel Wilding | Wednesday 31 July 2024 at 09:01

Danusia Samal’s UK garage-infused drama is ‘lovingly built’

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Don’t Destroy Me, Arcola Theatre, stage review: ‘Frantic pacing and overloaded dialogue’

By Gabriel Wilding | Monday 29 January 2024 at 13:50

‘Repetitive content’ and ‘shaky performances’ mar this adaptation of a Michael Hastings play

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A Hero of Our Time, Arcola Theatre – review

By Sarah Birch | Friday 30 November 2018 at 22:15
“Was I put on this earth to destroy the hopes of others?” Oliver Bennett plays Pechorin. Photograph: Oleg Katchinsky

Fast paced and bursting with emotion, this is a new adaptation of Mikhail Lermontov’s neglected 1840 novel

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Women’s Equality Party co-founder Catherine Mayer urges Hackney to vote for Harini Iyengar

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 2 May 2018 at 11:57

‘I think she absolutely killed it’, Mayer tells Citizen after mayoral hustings

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Mayoral candidates quizzed at Hackney Citizen hustings at the Arcola Theatre

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 30 April 2018 at 14:23

Panel answers questions at sold-out event ahead of elections

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Hackney Citizen Mayoral Hustings 2018: live blog

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Sunday 29 April 2018 at 13:41
HC Crest

Join Local Democracy Reporter Adam Barnett as he brings you all the latest from our election debate live at the Arcola Theatre

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Green-light for workshop and flats block opposite Shacklewell gallery

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 8 March 2018 at 15:23

Council approves scheme to replace Miller’s Avenue shipping containers

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Arcola Theatre’s Creative/Disruption festival: we preview this season of new plays from the local community

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 20 February 2018 at 17:23
Plays for today: Creative/Disruption brings a diverse collection of Hackney citizens, and their stories, to the Arcola's intimate stage. Photograph: Ali Wright

From over 50s to Turkish theatre, the Dalston theatre is throwing the spotlight on underrepresented groups’ stories in this iteration of the annual festival

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Green Room: Arcola Theatre aims to steal show in Sustainability category at The Stage awards

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 15 December 2017 at 17:02
Nominated: the Arcola Theatre have a chance to win big at The Stage awards. Photograph: Arcola Theatre

The magazine gave the Dalston performance hub the nod for its recent LED lighting scheme and its many other environmental credentials

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Night Overground from Dalston Junction will launch ten days before Christmas, says Sadiq Khan

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 20 November 2017 at 15:19

Rich Mix and Arcola welcome news of 24-hour train service

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Insignificance, Arcola Theatre, theatre review: ‘Bailey Johnson plays Marilyn with speedily unwinding energy’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 6 November 2017 at 14:29
Einstein-a-go-go: Simon Rouse and Alice Bailey Johnson. Photograph: Alex Brenner

This production of the witty, contemplative 1982 play brings together thinly-veiled versions of Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe McCarthy and Joe DiMaggio

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Arcola, The Marriage of Kim K review: ‘it isn’t going to break the internet’

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 2 August 2017 at 12:55
Yasemin Gulumser as Kim Kardashian in The Marriage of Kim K

This new, zeitgeisty production – the opener of the Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborn opera season – is packed with ideas that sometimes pay off, but is ultimately noisy and confused

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Richard III, Arcola, theatre review: the bovver boy royal in a bare bones production

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 26 May 2017 at 11:34
"Working class insouciance": Greg Hicks and Sara Powell in Richard III. Photograph: Alex Brenner

This enjoyable staging of Shakespeare’s historic tragedy makes the most of its stark setting and a “performance on fire”

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The Plague, Arcola Theatre, review: an incisive adaptation of Camus’ classic

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 April 2017 at 11:44
Timely: The Plague runs at the Arcola until 6 May. Photograph: Arcola Theatre.

Morgana Edwards took her seat for a sharp, direct staging of the classic novel which, unfortunately, could not be more timely

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The Lower Depths, Arcola, review: farcical situations and tragic moments

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 8 February 2017 at 15:35
Jack Klaff, Jacob Banser, Doug Rao and Mark Jax in The Lower Depths. Photograph: Robert Workman.

The Dalston theatre hosts a harsh, passionate and ultimately remorseless production of Maxim Gorky’s play

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Arcola to mark Russian Revolution’s 100th anniversary with season of plays

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 30 December 2016 at 10:50

A specially-commissioned work and classics such as The Cherry Orchard to form part of season exploring the causes and impact of the Russian Revolution a century on

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Grimeborn returns for tenth anniversary at the Arcola

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 29 July 2016 at 17:46

Opera festival presents sixteen new pieces of music theatre including new works and reinvigorated classics

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Grimeborn returns for tenth anniversary at the Arcola

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 29 July 2016 at 17:00
Bluebeard's Castle

Opera festival presents sixteen new pieces of music theatre including new works and reinvigorated classics

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