simple8 is an ensemble based theatre company who specialisein creating innovative, bold new plays that tackle big ideas usinglarge casts – all on a shoe-string budget.

Using a variety of techniques – poor theatre, mime, live musicand song, puppetry and magic – we aim to produce plays thatare fun, inventive, original and daring.

simple8 has a strong commitment to environmental issues andcontinues to work alongside Arcola Theatre to develop policiesbased on the principles of ecological sustainability.

simple8 introduce vivid details of behaviour, play withtheatrical illusions and interact with an easy, natural grace.They have indeed created an ensemble.����� The Times

www.simple8.co.uk

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12 February –16 March 2013

27 March –4 May 2013

TheCabinet ofDr. Caligari

MobyDick

simple8 presents

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Box Officewww.arcolatheatre.com020 7503 1646

Arcola Theatre24 Ashwin Street

Dalston, London E8 3DL

A double-bill of new work with thesame ensemble

From the company that brought LesEnfants du Paradis and The FourStages of Cruelty to Arcola Theatre

A company possessing the skills,dedication and intelligence tocreate wonder����� The Times

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T ICKETS AND BOOK ING

Advance Ticket Sales by phone (12.30 – 6pm, Monday – Saturday)020 7503 1646 or online (24 hours a day) at www.arcolatheatre.com

SPEC IAL OFFERS

15% OFF when you book both showsBook both productions in the same booking and save 15%.Automatically applied online and when booking by phone.Please note: this offer is only available until 16 March 2013 and subject to availability.

Concessions on all opening performances

12 February – 16 March 2013simple8 presents

TheCabinetofDr.CaligariA new play inspired by the cult filmby Dudley Hinton andSebastian Armesto with simple8

Franzis Gruber, a lowly bureaucrat, lives aneat and ordered life in a sleepy, provincialGerman town. When a travelling fair arrives,full of clowns, freaks, magicians and sleep-walkers, it drags Franzis into a series of night-marish murders – spinning dreams into reality,the imagined into truth and order into chaos.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is one of the mostinfluential films of all time: a box office smashin 1920, it came to define cinematicExpressionism and inspire Film Noir. Tornfrom the screen, simple8 transforms the filminto a fast, frenzied fairground sideshow witha “pungently evocative and blackly amusingmaster-class in the art of ‘poor’ theatre”(Time Out).

“simple8 specialise in creating theatricalriches on a shoestring”���� The Independent

27 March – 4 May 2013simple8 presents

Moby-DickA new play adapted from Herman Melville’s novel

by Sebastian Armesto

1851. Nantucket. Centre of a whaling industrythat transformed blubber into the oils andcandles that lit the world. It’s here that aschoolmaster called Ishmael arrives toshipona whale-boat. He enrols under Ahab,Captain of the Pequod – a man bent ondestroying the white whale that lost him hisleg. Certain the destruction of his nemesiswill slake his thirst, Ahab’s single-mindedpursuit of Moby-Dick consumes Ishmael, thecrew and the Pequod itself.

The spirit and atmosphere of HermanMelville’s masterpiece – romantic, ambiguous,characterful and rich with allegory – iscaptured on stage by simple8 with “atreasure chest of talented actors,impressive musicians and intelligentscripting and directing” (New Statesman).

“Innovation on an earthbound budget. Thetechniques of ‘poor theatre’ have rarelybeen better employed”���� Evening Standard

Shadows, dreams, they’re all around us,they’re everywhere!

It’s true. It’s all true for Moby-Dick. He’s a killer, he’s a fury,he’s an angel of hell. Why if thewhite whale could talk he’d talklike Ahab.

Tickets and Times STUDIO 2£17 (£12 concessions) Monday – Saturday 8:00pm

Saturday matinees (23 February; 02, 09, 16 March) 3:00pm £14 (£12 concessions)

Opening performances (13 – 16, 18, 20, 21 February) all tickets £12

Pay What You Can Tuesdays (tickets in person from 6.30pm – limited and subject to availability)

Tickets and Times STUDIO 1£18 (£14 concessions) Monday – Saturday 7:30pm

Saturday matinees (6, 13, 20, 27 April; 4 May) 2:30pm £16 (£14 concessions)

Opening performances (27 – 30 March; 1, 3, 4 April) all tickets £14

Pay What You Can Tuesdays (tickets in person from 6.30pm – limited and subject to availability)