Arcola Theatre announces 2026 autumn/winter season

Arcola Theatre has announced its autumn/winter 2026 season, running from 9 September 2026 to 20 February 2027.

The season opens with Fire Fire by John Webber, presented by Webber and Co with Metal Rabbit Productions in association with HighTide and Harlow Playhouse.

Directed by Jennifer Tang, the production runs in Studio 2 from 9 September to 3 October, with press night on 11 September. The play follows Eddie, who is holding a memorial for his brother, and Paige, who is staging a climate protest that closes a road near a countryside sanctuary. Their repeated encounters lead them to collaborate and take further action.

In Studio 1, The Turn of the Screw, adapted by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm from the novella by Henry James, runs from 11 September to 10 October, with press night on 18 September. Presented by Arcola Theatre and Blackeyed Theatre and directed by Nicky Allpress, the production follows a governess who takes up a post caring for two children in a remote house – with spooky goings on.

From 7 October to 7 November in Studio 2, Julia Pascal’s The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt, France, 1940 is presented by Arcola Theatre and Pascal Theatre Company, with press night on 12 October. Written and directed by Pascal, the play centres on Hannah Arendt, Charlotte Salomon and Eva Daube, who are detained in Camp Gurs after being arrested in France in 1940.

The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen, in a version by David Edgar, runs in Studio 1 from 16 October to 21 November, with press night on 22 October. Directed by artistic director Mehmet Ergen, the production follows architect Halvard Solness as he considers his legacy and is confronted by Hilde Wangel. Greg Hicks stars.

The season concludes with Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy, running in Studio 1 from 15 January to 20 February, with press night on 20 January. Directed by Melly Still, the play is set in a detention room in Nazi-occupied France, where a group of men await interrogation after being detained without explanation.

The season continues Arcola’s Pay What You Can initiative on Tuesdays, with tickets priced between £12 and £39.