Tarantula Tickets - London
It’s a sun-kissed, spring day in East London. Two teenagers kiss on a street corner. For Toni, this is her first kiss, and it makes her happy.
But there is someone else watching them. Someone who doesn’t care at all about Toni's happiness. And they are about to change the course of her life… forever.
Tarantula is a startling one-woman play. An exploration of memory, identity, love, and the extreme lengths it can take people to free themselves from the intricate, tangled web of their past.
Presented together for the first time, and now reimagined by their original director, Wiebke Green, Critics’ Circle Award-winning writer Philip Ridley’s darkly comic and thrilling plays Tarantula and The Poltergeist return to London at the Arcola Theatre, with a new, talented cast and are presented together for the first time. After acclaimed premieres in 2022 and earlier this year, these companion pieces are now presented in an unforgettable double bill.
Experience both plays individually or together on the same night, to uncover how Ridley’s interwoven themes of love, family, and memory reverberate against the bustling backdrop of Eas London.