1st Night Photos: Arcola Reopens with Painter
The Arcola Theatre in Dalston reopened on Friday (14 January 2011) at its new location on Ashwin Street with the world premiere of Rebecca Lenkiewicz‘s The Painter, a play about the life of English romantic landscape painter and watercolourist JMW Turner.
The play is a fitting choice; the theatre’s new Colourworks home, which it is moving to after ten years on Arcola Street, was the former home of Reeves whose colour blocks were made famous by artists such as Turner and Constable.
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PHOTOS BY DAN WOOLLER FOR WHATSONSTAGE.COM.
Directed by Arcola artistic director Mehmet Ergen, the production, which continues until 12 February, stars Toby Jones as Turner with Niamh Cusack as mistress and mother of his two children, Sarah Danby. The cast also features Amanda Boxer, Jim Bywater, Denise Gough and Ian Midlane.
