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Arcola Theatre

Theatre in Hackney, London, England

Summary

Theatre in Hackney, London, England

Field	Value
name	Arcola Theatre
location	Dalston
London,
United Kingdom
coordinates
owner	Arcola Theatre Production Company
capacity	200 (main house)
100 (studio)
opened
rebuilt	2010–11
production	Repertory productions
public_transit	;
website	arcolatheatre.com

London, United Kingdom 100 (studio)

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, Dalston, houses two studio theatre spaces, two rehearsal studios and a café-bar. In 2021 the theatre opened Arcola Outside, also on Ashwin Street.

Since 2007 the Green Arcola project has aimed to make Arcola the world's first carbon-neutral theatre.

History

Arcola Theatre was founded by Artistic Director Mehmet Ergen, and Executive Producer Leyla Nazli 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. It marked the move by premiering The Painter, a play about J. M. W. Turner by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

Since its inception the theatre has twice won the Peter Brook Empty Space Award and was awarded Time Out Live Awards in 2003 and 2006.

In 2007, an Arcola co-production of Mojo Mickey by Owen McCafferty became its first West End transfer to the Trafalgar Studios. 2007 also marked the first year of the Arcola's Grimeborn, an opera and musical theatre festival that now runs for six weeks in August and September.

The theatre claims to be committed to achieving carbon-neutral status and a research project, Arcola Energy, "bringing together the creative mindset and the engineering methodology", is established on the building's top floor to develop and market hydrogen fuel cells, with the profits subsidising the theatre's community arts projects. Simple8's 2008 production at the Arcola, The Living Unknown Soldier, was the first show to be powered by the venue's hydrogen fuel cell. Peak power consumption for lighting was said to be 4.5 kW, or "up to 60 percent less than comparable lighting installations".

References

"Arcola Outside".
"Arcola Moves as Landlords Turn Theatre into Flats – News".
Lee, Veronica. (10 April 2012). "Moving stories for London's fringe theatres". [[London Evening Standard]].
[http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/mojoarcola.htm British Theatre Guide, 30 May 2007] accessed 18 Sep 2007
"Case study: Arcola Theatre". [[10:10.
(April 2008). "Arcola Theatre Now Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered". Stage Directions.

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