Arcola announces new season

The Arcola has announced its new season with highlights including revivals of Terry Johnson's Insignificance and Sergio Blanco's Thebes Land.

The Studio 1 season begins on 6 September with Blanco's award-winning multi-reality drama. Thebes Land is about a playwright trying to tell the story of a young man serving a life sentence for killing his father, and is part of the CASA Latin American Theatre Festival. In his review of the show last year, Matt Trueman said director Daniel Goldman's production was 'engrossing and slippery'.

This will be followed by the first London revival in 35 years of Terry Johnson's comedy Insignificance (18 October to 18 November), about an imagined meeting between Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe.

Olivier Award-winning company Opera Up Close presents Eugene Onegin from 22 November to 23 December. This new chamber version of Tchaikovsky’s coming-of-age opera is set in the early 1960s.

Studio 2 will host Henry Naylor's Angel (11 September to 7 October), Jane Upton's All the Little Lights (10 October to 4 November), Rikki Beadle-Blair will direct #Hashtag Lightie by Lynette Linton (14 November to 2 December), and Papatango Theatre Company presents Hanna by Sam Potter (3 to 20 January).

Also announced today is Grimeborn, the theatre's fringe opera festival which returns for its 11th year, and Playwrought, Arcola's annual new writing festival which will feature 14 rehearsed readings.