A tense and heart-wrenching play about forbidden and unrequited love.

Fantastic value (if slightly too up-close for some) double bill in London's most exciting opera festival.

This site-specific piece offers simplistic opera in a great location with good performances from all.

Pros: A tense, thought-provoking story with strong, dedicated actors and a neatly crafted design. Cons: The studio is a small, claustrophobic space, which might unnerve some. Occasionally, the timeliness of a production not only has an effect on the play, but also on the audience; its content hits close to reality, making us stop and think. Tess Berry-Hart’s bold new drama Cargo, playing at the Arcola Theatre, does just that. Cargo is an 80-minute thriller, with no interval, presenting a portrait of ...

An exciting, modern-day take on Shakespeare's political drama that's particularly pertinent just before the Mayoral election.

Pros: The set was absolutely mind-blowing. Cons: There was too much swearing in a script that otherwise flowed quite nicely. From the moment I entered the auditorium at the Arcola, I wished I could take a multi-sensorial picture of the mesmerising set into which I had been welcomed. Immersed in a cloud of incense-perfumed haze, a staircase led up to a red curtain, which was guarded on both sides by Chinese lanterns. Two golden doors and pillars with engraved logograms completed ...

A world of female-centred new writing in one long, but rewarding evening – a pleasing balance of entertainment and issue interrogation.

Worth seeing if you’re interested in poetry and the artistic temperament

An engaging evening of opera that's perhaps not the best choice for newbies to the genre.

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