Tag Archives: Mehmet Ergen

Richard III

Arcola Theatre, (****)

© Alex Brenner, Greg Hicks as Richard III

© Alex Brenner, Greg Hicks as Richard III

This was a huge undertaking for somewhere like the Arcola. Big cast plays don’t often surface so it’s a coup for the ever enterprising Mehmet Ergen to not only do one of the most famous Shakespeare History plays but secure Greg Hicks in the leading role. Continue reading

The Cherry Orchard

Arcola Theatre, London (****)

© Robert Workman, Sian Thomas (Mme Ranevsky), Jude Akuwudike (Lopakhin)

© Robert Workman, Sian Thomas (Mme Ranevsky), Jude Akuwudike (Lopakhin)

Terrific Revolution season, Mehmet Ergen has put together at the Arcola. Along with Gorki’s The Lower Depths, a howl of distress from the underbelly of society now sits Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, whilst Oladipo Agboluaje’s New Nigerians brings us up to date, almost, in the Studio with his African voice. Continue reading

Drones, Baby, Drones

Arcola Theatre, London (****)

© Simon Annand, Anne Adams as CIA executive Maxine in This Tuesday

© Simon Annand, Anne Adams as CIA executive Maxine in This Tuesday

You can’t keep a good man down. Nick Kent may no longer be presiding over the nation’s conscience as he did from his Tricycle Kilburn haunt but here he is popping up on the other side of town, in Hackney with this important double-bill serving a warning on the latest twist in modern warfare, the drone: Ron Hutchinson and Christina Lamb’s This Tuesday, and David Greig’s The Kid. Continue reading