Arcola Theatre
Location | Repertory productions |
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Construction | |
Opened | 2000 |
Rebuilt | 2010-11 |
Website | |
arcolatheatre.com |
Arcola Theatre is in the London Borough of Hackney. It presents plays, operas and musicals featuring established and emerging artists.
The theatre building, in the former Colourworks paint factory on Ashwin Street,
Since 2007 the Green Arcola project has aimed to make Arcola the world's first
History
Arcola Theatre was founded by artistic director Mehmet Ergen, in September 2000.
Its original location was a former textile factory on Arcola Street in Dalston. The theatre celebrated this with its fifth anniversary production, The Factory Girls by Frank McGuinness. In January 2011 the Arcola moved to a former paint-manufacturing workshop on Ashwin Street in Dalston, after its previous landlord earmarked the Arcola Street site for redevelopment as apartments.[2] It marked the move by premiering The Painter, a play about J. M. W. Turner by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.[3]
Since its inception the theatre has twice won the Peter Brook Empty Space Award and was awarded
In 2007, an Arcola co-production of Mojo Mickey by
The theatre claims to be committed to achieving
References
- ^ "Arcola Outside".
- ^ "Arcola Moves as Landlords Turn Theatre into Flats - - News - Whatsonstage.com". Archived from the original on 9 December 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
- London Evening Standard.
- ^ British Theatre Guide, 30 May 2007 accessed 18 Sep 2007
- 10:10 Climate Action. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
- ^ "Arcola Theatre Now Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered". Stage Directions. April 2008. Retrieved 30 April 2023 – via ProQuest.