Reviewer's Rating Falstaff Owen Davies 19/08/2015ulham Opera’s version of Verdi’s late masterpiece, Falstaff, is a delight. Though the setting is modern day – the ‘seaside...
Reviewer's Rating Gariné Owen Davies 18/08/2015his opera is a strange but delightful little gem. Tchouhadjian, apparently known as the ‘Oriental Offenbach’, composed this work in...
Reviewer's Rating Marsha: A Girl Who Does Bad Things Sophie Nevrkla 14/08/2015s part of “Grimeborn,” what Time Out describes as “London’s hippest festival of new and underground opera,” the Arcola Theatre...
Reviewer's Rating La Boheme Owen Davies 07/08/2015uccini’s tear-jerker masterpiece seems to hold a special appeal for companies who aim to present old classics in stripped down...
Reviewer's Rating The Clown of Clowns S.A. McCracken 05/08/2015s part of their annual Grimeborn Opera Festival, the Arcola debuts what is undoubtedly the worst performance I have ever...
Reviewer's Rating The House of Mirrors and Hearts Richard McKee 09/07/2015hrough a glass darkly might describe the viewer’s experience of this odd but powerful piece, which is getting its world...
Reviewer's Rating Now This is Not the End Sam Pengelly 07/06/2015hey say your name lasts only three generations. In the profound essay Urn Burial, the Renaissance essayist Thomas Browne describes...
Reviewer's Rating Clarion Allison Loose 24/04/2015n the digital age, when old school printed newspapers fight for survival, and yellow press journalism has modernized into a...
Reviewer's Rating Peddling Allison Loose 07/03/2015rithing in the dirt and the rubble, half-naked in the flickering lights, the opening of Harry Melling’s peddling is abrupt...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Luke Davies 27/01/2015he Arcola Queer Collective’s first production is a fusion of cabaret, new writing and Shakespeare, performed by an ensemble representing...