He was also inspired by the size and atmospherics of the space to put on unusual productions such as Arthur Miller's The Crucible in the building's damp, dark basement with the audience seated on church pews, Metropolis - The Theatre Cut, a promenade version of Fritz Lang's film featuring a cast of 100,[2] and a staging of Seamus Heaney's translation of the epic poem Beowulf .
[3] For the building's fifteenth anniversary in 2006, Arnold conceived and directed the critically acclaimed production Spend A Penny, a series of one-on-one monologues staged in the venue's toilet cubicles, featuring work by playwrights including Liz Lochhead James Kelman and David Harrower.
His first production for the Tron Theatre Company, The Drawer Boy, was highly acclaimed and since then he has also directed That Face, Cooking with Elvis, Bliss, Mud, 'Shall Roger Casement Hang?'
by Peter Arnott,[4] the world premiere stage adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses, which toured to Ireland as well as four cities in China.
[5] Most recent work has included directing David Ireland's Cyprus Avenue, John Byrne's Underwood Lane, Ramesh Meyyappan in 'Off Kilter - Singapore, Glasgow, Paris, and Shanghai, The Lonesome West at the Tron and in Perm, Russia, the Scottish premiere of The Lying Kind by Anthony Neilson, a new play by Martin McCormack called Ma, Pa, and the Little Mouths, and the first British production of Ballyturk by Enda Walsh.