Moby Dick – review
Arcola Theatre hosts an eco-friendly Melville adaptation that is wonderfully atmospheric and bristling with energy
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Moby Dick – a whale of a time at the Arcola
An adaptation of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick opens at the Arcola this month
Shakespeare’s Hackney roots unearthed
Two excavated theatres in Shoreditch were probably where Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Henry V were first performed
The Trial – Kafka’s play comes to Hackney
Adaptation of Kafka’s The Trial sees audience members hotfoot around East London
Watt – a charged performance
A stage adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s second novel Watt opens this month at the Barbican
Prophesy – prophets and loss of love
A young Paris and Helen of Troy are lead characters in Prophesy, a play intent on going against the theatrical grain
Mare Rider – review
Arcola co-founder Leyla Nazli’s new play has echoes of The Master and Margarita’s magical realism
Leyla Nazli – juggling myth and reality
Leyla Nazli manages to write plays about mythical creatures whilst simultaneously helping to run the Arcola Theatre
The Master and Margarita – review
Mikhail Bulgakov’s ‘unstageable’ masterpiece at the Barbican
A labour of love – Sappho…in 9 Fragments
Play about Ancient Greece’s first love poet opens at the White Rabbit Theatre in Stoke Newington
Staging the ‘unstageable’ – The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita returns for a second stint at the Barbican
Meet Susie McKenna – Hackney Empire’s pantotime queen
Dick Whittington and His Cat is this year’s pantomime at the Hackney Empire. The Hackney Citizen talks to the show’s writer and director, Susie McKenna
but i cd only whisper – interview with director Nadia Latif
New play at the Arcola Theatre explores men’s mental health in 1970s black America
Quills – review
Second Skin’s rendition of the last days of the Marquis de Sade is a compelling and credible portrayal
The Revenger’s Tragedy
Director Suba Das enlists the help of local young people to devise response piece to Jacobean Tragedy