Chaplin: Birth of a Tramp is a sensitive and interesting take on Chaplin, looking at the artist behind the art and continues to showcase Arrows and Traps as a innovative company.
‘Incredible sensitivity & intelligence’: CHAPLIN: BIRTH OF A TRAMP – Brockley Jack Studio Theatre ★★★★★
Chaplin: Birth of a Tramp is an enthralling and emotive production with an unforgettable central performance – another unmissable show from Arrows & Traps.
‘Fascinating, entertaining & surprisingly poignant’: CHAPLIN: BIRTH OF A TRAMP – Brockley Jack Studio Theatre
If you’ve ever wondered how this particular legend was born, the play Chaplin: Birth of a Tramp offers a fascinating, entertaining and surprisingly poignant way to find out.
‘Imaginative take on a familiar tale’: DRACULA – Brockley Jack Theatre
Adaptor/director Ross McGregor turning to Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula makes sense, not least as it offers ample opportunity for Arrows & Traps to refresh its rather dustily antiquated take on gender.
‘Uncomfortable & devastating’: THE WHITE ROSE – Brockley Jack Theatre
Best known for their adaptations of literary classics, Arrows & Traps has taken a different approach in their latest production, The White Rose.
’One of the highest quality Fringe productions I have seen for a while’: THE WHITE ROSE – Brockley Jack Theatre
Arrow and Traps’ re-telling of the story of The White Rose is apt in times of increased authoritarianism around the world. In Sophie Scholl, the most famous and youngest member to executed by the Nazi Government for treason, Lucy Ionnou shows us the human behind the activist.
‘Engagingly & captivatingly staged’: THE WHITE ROSE – Brockley Jack Theatre
For all the weight of the subject, The White Rose is engagingly and captivatingly staged, losing none of the visual inventiveness that has characterised so much of Arrows & Traps’ previous work.
‘A fresh take on the emotional stasis at the heart of the play’: THREE SISTERS – Brockley Jack Studio Theatre
Chekhov’s Three Sisters, presented here by Arrows and Traps in a new version by Ross McGregor, continues that strong tradition, paring back the starch to locate a real emotional directness to the trials of the Prozorov sisters.
‘A fresh take on the emotional stasis at the heart of the play’: THREE SISTERS – Brockley Jack Studio Theatre
Chekhov’s Three Sisters, presented here by Arrows and Traps in a new version by Ross McGregor, continues that strong tradition, paring back the starch to locate a real emotional directness to the trials of the Prozorov sisters.