The Apology Tickets

“It looks like a good season at the Arcola, Dalston’s brilliant local theatre with a city-wide reputation. Philip Ridley’s The Poltergeist was last seen in a streamed version during lockdown. Now it takes to the stage in Wiebke Green’s production in October, and that will be followed by Frank McGuiness’ Dinner with Groucho which brings Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot together in a restaurant on the edge of heaven. First off comes New Earth’s The Apology, an intriguing play by South Korean writer Kyo Choi, about the women forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese army in the countries it occupied during WW2. Based on true accounts, it asks hard questions about responsibility, reparation, and what is the nature of genuine apology. The North Wall’s Ria Parry directs.”