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| Location | Dalston London,E8 United Kingdom |
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| Coordinates | 51°33′07″N0°04′26″W / 51.551944°N 0.073889°W /51.551944; -0.073889 |
| Public transit |  Dalston Junction;Dalston Kingsland |
| Owner | Arcola Theatre Production Company |
| Capacity | 200 (main house) 100 (studio) |
| Production | Repertory productions |
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| Opened | 2000; 26 years ago (2000) |
| Rebuilt | 2010–11 |
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| arcolatheatre.com | |
Arcola Theatre is in theLondon 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 twostudio theatre spaces, two rehearsal studios and a café-bar. In 2021 the theatre opened Arcola Outside, also on Ashwin Street.[1]
Since 2007 theGreen Arcola project has aimed to make Arcola the world's firstcarbon-neutral theatre.
Arcola Theatre was founded by Artistic DirectorMehmet 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 byFrank 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.[2] It marked the move by premieringThe Painter, a play aboutJ. M. W. Turner byRebecca Lenkiewicz.[3]
Since its inception the theatre has twice won thePeter Brook Empty Space Award and was awardedTime Out Live Awards in 2003 and 2006.[citation needed]
In 2007, an Arcola co-production ofMojo Mickey byOwen McCafferty became its firstWest End transfer to theTrafalgar Studios.[4] 2007 also marked the first year of the Arcola'sGrimeborn, anopera andmusical theatre festival that now runs for six weeks in August and September.[citation needed]
The theatre claims to be committed to achievingcarbon-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 markethydrogen fuel cells, with the profits subsidising the theatre's community arts projects.[5]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".[6]
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