Ovalhouse Public/Private season spring 2015

PUBLIC | PRIVATE

OVALHOUSE spring season 11 March – 6 June 2015

Ovalhouse’s Spring 2015 season is a Public/Private conversation about where we keep the things we care about, who those things belong to and what happens when we have to choose between ourselves and something bigger.

Amongst our collection of Public/Private moments Rachel Mars throws light on the secret envies moulding society, Stacy Makishi and Luca Rutherford start a public conversation about our private deaths, Ira Brand explores who she’s being herself for, Chris Ioan Roberts imagines a brief moment of Royal privacy and Chris Goode invites the public into his room.

We’re asking how much of ourselves we can keep and how much we’re prepared to share. Are we changing the world or is it changing us? The season invites you to look from multiple perspectives at the tension between the individual and the greater good. It’s complex and contradictory. It is personal, political, profound and ridiculous.

Join us publicly, privately or somewhere in between to figure out where ‘you’ ends and ‘we’ begins...

Rebecca Atkinson-Lord & Rachel Briscoe Directors of Theatre, Ovalhouse

Ovalhouse Downstairs 17 – 28 March, Tues-Sat 7.30pm, Sun 22 March 5pm Fri 20 March: post-show discussion with the creative team Ovalhouse and Compagnie TDU present

All The Things You sAid You never sAid Before You ThoughT You Could ever sAY Written by Anthony nikolchev | Collaborating Artist vivien Wood Meet one couple.

Watch two versions.

One lives the reality of a missed chance, a missed communication, an unwanted grudge held over nothing; the other physically, verbally, feverishly tries what their former versions don’t – to embrace the fantastic challenge of sharing a life. Around them, of course, the world falls from the sky. Luckily, the imminent chaos turns out to be the much needed catalyst for them to finally grasp for some meaning. cietdu.com | @ThingsUSaid

“One of the most interesting and creative performances I’ve seen all year…

A powerful and resonating text written by Anthony Nikolchev which can be both devastating and laugh out loud funny in a heartbeat…”

Debbie Stoke for Social Butterfly Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Originally commissioned by Dance City, Newcastle. With kind support by: Pantographe, Switzerland; Záhrada, Slovakia; République et Canton du Jura, Switzerland; Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Switzerland; Loterie Romande, Switzerland; and Tanzhaus, Zurich.

Tickets £10 | £6

Photo by John FG Stead

FiRST BiTES is Ovalhouse’s programme of exciting new works-indevelopment. They offer an early peek at the work we might be supporting over the next few seasons and give you a chance to offer us your feedback to help shape what each piece becomes. The work might be unfinished or rough around the edges, but the ideas will be vibrant.

This season, we present 5 new FiRST BiTES from rachel Mars, untold Theatre, Jon Coleman, russell Bender and rachael Young and 2 FiRST BiTES 33% London Commissions by Alex rand and Ambreen razia as part of Ovalhouse’s Creative Youth programme.

Tickets £5

Ovalhouse Upstairs Weds 11 – Sat 14 March 7pm Ovalhouse Creative Youth present a 33% London Commission

if The lighTs Are Too BrighT

By Alex rand Join Felix and Bunny as they wander Hong Kong in a haze of wild nights and the pulsing undercurrent of political change.

If the Lights Are Too Bright is Canadian-born, Alex Rand’s first full length play. Set against the backdrop of the recent Hong Kong protests, it explores citizenship, where your true “home” is, and how a little document such as a passport holds so much power in deciding your fate.

A 33% London Commission: Ovalhouse’s Creative Youth programme that supports participants making the transition to professional work.

Supported by The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, The Garrick Charitable Trust, The Joanies Fund and The John Thaw Foundation.

Ovalhouse Upstairs Weds 25 – Sat 28 March 7.45pm Rachel Mars in association with Ovalhouse presents

our CArnAl heArTs By rachel Mars This fairy comes round your house.

You, she says, are in luck.

Ask for anything you want. Anything in the world and I’ll give it to you.

But whatever you ask for, your neighbour gets the same, but double.

Great. You say. Fine.

Cut out one of my eyes.

Our Carnal Hearts is a celebration of envy, a joyous call for everyone we’ve ever wanted to be and everything we’ve ever wanted to own. rachelmars.org | @rachelofmars

Photo by Anna Cole.

Ovalhouse Upstairs Weds 1 – Sat 4 April 7.45pm Thurs 2 April: post-show panel discussion with historians Lauren Johnson and Miranda Kaufmann Ovalhouse and Untold Theatre in association with Colchester Arts Centre present

CATAlinA By untold Theatre Written by Hassan Abdulrazzak | Directed by Daniel Goldman Spain. 1501. The Inquisition.

Banned clothes, burned books, forced religious conversions or exile.

Two immigrants leave for the English court. One is Katherine, England's future queen. The other, her Moorish servant Catalina, is privy to secrets that will change the future of England forever... theatreuntold.co.uk | @untold_theatre

Ovalhouse Upstairs Weds 8 – Sat 11 April 7pm Ovalhouse and Jon Coleman present

hoW To Be A MAn

By Jon Coleman Men are in crisis. They don't know how to be men anymore; they don’t even know what it means to be a man and they are desperately trying to find the answers.

In this solo performance, a performer attempts to navigate the tricky landscape of masculinity as he searches for what makes a man a man.

There are man-hugs, costume changes and a little bit of sword play.

An apology must be made however. This show will fail, it won't work.

But that's ok, it's not meant to. jonmcoleman.wordpress.com | @jonathancolem

Ovalhouse Upstairs Weds 15 – Sat 18 April 7.45pm Fri 17 April: post-show discussion with the creative team and academic collaborators Ovalhouse and Potential Difference present

AnCienT frAgMenTs By russell Bender and dr laura swift We like to think we experience life as a narrative, but often our view of the world breaks apart into fragments. We remember certain moments in sharp focus, without being sure how we got there. We see part of a picture and leap to conclusions about what is missing.

Inspired by the plays of Euripides, Ancient Fragments combines the fragmentation in our lives with real fragments: scraps remaining from ‘lost plays’ of ancient Greece. potentialdifference.org.uk

Ovalhouse Upstairs Weds 27 – Sat 30 May 7.45pm Ovalhouse, mac Birmingham and Rachael Young present

i, MYself And Me By rachael Young With the rise of more people living a single existence, this piece explores where the pressure comes from to cohabit/marry. Is it society? Ourselves?

Or is it centered on our need to prove our emotional independence?

In I, Myself and Me Rachael takes on the role of social commentator, examining our fascination with coupling and oering a white flag to those who are living with single status shame. Through conversation with strangers, a rom-com marathon and a stint on the therapist chair, she lays our relationship baggage bare.

(This event TBC at time of going to press: please check website for further info) Supported by mac Birmingham and the BBC Performing Arts Fund.

Ovalhouse Downstairs Weds 3 – Sat 6 June 7pm Ovalhouse Creative Youth present a 33% London Commission

The diArY of A hounsloW girl

By Ambreen razia This debut play from Ambreen Razia, a British Pakistani writer and actress, is told through the eyes of a 16 year old British Muslim Girl growing up in West London. From traditional Pakistani weddings to fights on the night bus The Diary of a Hounslow Girl is a funny, bold, provocative play highlighting the challenges of being brought up in a traditional Muslim family alongside the temptations and influences growing up in and around London.

A 33% London Commission: Ovalhouse’s Creative Youth programme that supports participants making the transition to professional work.

Supported by The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, The Garrick Charitable Trust, The Joanies Fund and The John Thaw Foundation.

ovalhouse presents two new seed commissions created especially for our spring season. Presented in-development, they both explore ideas of Public/Private and how they affect the way we live.

Ovalhouse Downstairs Weds 1 – Sat 4 April 7.30pm

BreAk Yourself By ira Brand Ira is a performer, not a character. Usually she is standing on stage, trying to be honest, truthful, likeable. Trying to ‘be herself’ - for you. Not this time.

This is a piece that asks what ‘being yourself’ can mean. It is about public selves, about the relationship between image and identity, and the ethics of pretending. An experiment in constructing personas and alternative identities.

A risky, dishonest, head-first, whole-hearted, slightly desperate attempt to try and be something we have never been before. irabrand.co.uk | @irabrand

An Ovalhouse Public/Private Commission.

Tickets £8 | £5 concession

ovalhouse presents two new seed commissions created especially for our spring season. Presented in-development, they both explore ideas of Public/Private and how they affect the way we live.

Ovalhouse Downstairs Weds 8 – Fri 10 April 7.30pm, Sat 11 April 12 midday – 12 midnight

Big sMoTher By highrise Theatre What happens when reality TV is not a choice but a government requirement, like jury service? How will you react to an immersive game of judgement in the public eye?

Welcome to Big Smother, a human research project dedicated to revealing the truth about the human psyche. Most of the general public is dreading that letter to drop on their mat, others can’t wait.

Encouraged with tasks, treats and emotions, participants have to lay it all bare, tell the truth and forge relationships while producers continue to throw the participants obstacles and pit them against each other.

Live, 24/7 on channel GOV 1. @HighRise_UK

sPeCiAl evenT There will be a 12 hour Big Smother special event on Sat 11 April from 12 midday – 12 midnight.

An Ovalhouse Public/Private Commission.

Tickets £8 | £5 concession (except sat 11 April: special event £8)

Ovalhouse Upstairs Weds 8 – Sat 11 April 8pm Thurs 9 April: post-show discussion with the creative team Ovalhouse and David Sheppeard present

hArd grAfT By david sheppeard | outside eye and mentor stacy Makishi I am making a show about my dad, but I don't want him to see it.

In Hard Graft David Sheppeard investigates how much can change between one generation of a family and the next and the lengths we go to bridge the divide.

A performance about reluctant fathers and wayward sons set against the backdrop of the occasional mining disaster and the fading industrial landscapes of South Wales. davidsheppeard.co.uk | @dsheppeard

Tickets £10 | £6 concessions

Photo by Duncan Jarvies.

Ovalhouse Upstairs Tues 21 - Fri 24 April 7.45pm, Sat 25 April 5pm Fri 24 April: post-show discussion with the creative team Ovalhouse and Chris Ioan Roberts present

deAd roYAl

By Chris ioan roberts

Villa Windsor, Paris, 1981. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (82), invites Lady Diana Spencer (19) to a despair-laden bachelorette party on the eve of her wedding to the Prince of Wales.

Having spent weeks preparing her decaying, prisonlike mansion with its 29 servants, the Duchess frantically warns Diana to flee her impending marriage – before she too marries the wrong man, and becomes immortalised as the grasping commoner willing to crawl over broken glass to snatch a royal title.

Dead Royal is a high-camp celebration of narcissistic megalomania on a 1980’s scale, as two colossal personalities struggle bitterly to escape the long shadows cast by insignificant men. chrisioanroberts.com | @ioanroberts

“Chris Ioan Roberts in particular is someone to watch out for. He is going from strength to strength, both figuratively in the quality of his deft modulation between the tragic and the comic…”

Andrew Fuhrmann, TIME OUT (Melbourne)

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Tickets £10 | £6 concessions

Photo by Patricia Oliveira

Ovalhouse Upstairs 29 April - 9 May Weds-Sat 7.45pm, Sun 10 May 5pm Weds 6 May: post-show discussion with the creative team Ovalhouse and Aine Flanagan present

hoW To Win AgAinsT hisTorY By seiriol davies | directed by Alex swift Performed by Seiriol Davies, Matthew Blake and Tom Penn

Based on the charred remains of a true story.

The 5th Marquis of Anglesey was one of the wealthiest men who ever lived. He burned brightly, briefly and transvestitely at the end of the 19th Century, blowing his family's colossal fortune on diamond frocks, lilac-dyed poodles, putting on amazing plays to which nobody came, touring Germany performing the inexplicable "Famous Electric Butterfly Dance", and generally desperately trying to make himself a legend.

After he died at 29, his family, in vengeance, burned every proof they could find that he existed, and carried on as though he never was.

How to Win Against History is a hilarious, ripped-up musical about expectations, manliness, disappointment and being totally fabulous: Hedwig and the Angry Inch meets Noises Off in a ballgown. A frothy, glossy costume drama about the stories we tell to convince ourselves it's all going well, and the moments we realise it’s not. soundcloud.com/seiriol | @seirioldavies @HowToWinAgainst

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Tickets £10 | £6 concessions

Ovalhouse Downstairs Thurs 30 April and Fri 1 May 7.30pm Greg Wohead, Rachel Mars and Ovalhouse present

sTorY #1 By greg Wohead and rachel Mars In this experiment in performance binge watching Greg and Rachel invite you to fantasise about the perfect story.

"Imagine a bullfight without the bull: it would be a set of aesthetic manoeuvres, pretty twirls and pirouettes and so on – but there’d be no danger. The bull, crucially, brings danger to the party… that’s what the real is: the tip of the bull’s horn.” Tom McCarthy We promise no less than 65 minutes.

We promise real fictional characters.

We promise a plot.

We promise a surprise twist.

We promise a rupture.

We promise two people that look like a boy and a girl.

We promise an ending.

We promise a rupture.

Whatever happens we promise to tell the truth. gregwohead.com | rachelmars.org | @gregwohead | @rachelofmars

An Ovalhouse Seed Commission.

Tickets £8 | £5 concession

Ovalhouse Downstairs Weds 6 – Fri 8 and Tues 12 – Fri 15 May 7.30pm, Sun 10 and Sat 16 May 5pm Arch 468 presents

Cuddles

By Joseph Wilde | directed by rebecca Atkinson-lord Eve is a 13 year old vampire. She has never left her room and everything she knows about the world and herself comes from what her sister Tabby has told her.

Eve lives in a world without sunlight. A world where Harry Potter, Bilbo Baggins and the cast of Dante’s Inferno are real; where princes with adjectives instead of names seduce beautiful princesses against the odds. A world crammed full of story book characters but with just one living, breathing human being to cuddle.

Eve does everything a good little vampire girl should, including drinking her (human) sister’s blood. But one day, Tabby tires of opening her veins and, in a breath, the whole world changes.

Cuddles is the stunning debut play from Capital award-winning young playwright Joseph Wilde. arch468.com | @Arch468 “Rebecca Atkinson-Lord's production cannily plays on the dark fairytale element to atmospheric effect... the finale sends you out into the dark with a shiver.” Lyn Gardner, the Guardian “...a smart and gruesome gothic tale that reveals Wilde as a writer with a great deal of confidence and nerve... full-blooded drama with ferocious bite."

TIME OUT ★★★★ Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Tickets £10 | £6 concessions

Photo by Alex Beckett

Ovalhouse Upstairs Tues 12 – Sat 16 May 7.45pm, Sat 16 May 2pm Weds 13 May: post-show discussion with the creative team Ovalhouse and Philipp Oberlohr present

dAs sPiel: Are You PArT of The gAMe? Created by illusionist and performer Philipp oberlohr The Game has found you. As you read this you are becoming part of it.

The Game reaches into your past and creates the present. It makes you comfortably uncomfortable. The players are different every night and therefore The Game is different every night.

You are part of The Game.

A psychological immersive theatre show, blurring the lines between performance and reality. das-spiel.org | @PhilippOberlohr

“... the accuracy of his guesses: genuinely spooky!”

TIME OUT (on Philipp Oberlohr's séance)

Tickets £10 | £6 concessions

Photo by Agne Monti

Ovalhouse Downstairs Weds 20 – Sat 23 May 7.30pm, Sun 24 May 5pm Thurs 21 May: post-show discussion with the creative team Ovalhouse and Jamie Wood present

o no!

By Jamie Wood Following the success of Beating McEnroe, Jamie Wood returns to Ovalhouse with a new show, employing his signature blend of anarchic comedy, fandom and emotional terrorism.

A psychedelic ride, and a wonky homage to the woman damned for destroying the Beatles, O NO! borrows Yoko Ono’s art instructions to ask whether falling in love is always catastrophic.

This is a show about reckless optimism, avant-garde art and what we might yet have to learn from the hippies. jamiewood.org.uk | @jamieofthewood

“...one of the oddest, most original and entertaining hours you’re likely to spend in a theatre.”

Tom Wicker, Exeunt Magazine

Tickets £10 | £6 concessions

Photo by Jack Taylor Gotch

Ovalhouse Upstairs Weds 20 May – Sat 23 May 7.45pm Ovalhouse and Luca Rutherford present

leArning hoW To die By luca rutherford This is a show about death. Don’t let that put you off. It’s not a show about being sad. Or about grief. Or pity. This is a show about the actuality of dying and how an acceptance of our own mortality can drive a passion for life.

Luca is a writer, performer and theatre-maker from Newcastle. She's not afraid of talking about dying. But she has sweets and hugs if you are.

Join Luca in Learning How to Die and it might just change the way you live. @LucaRutherford

"One admires Rutherford not only for the bravery it takes to confront an audience with controversial issues, but also her ability to offer up her perspective with a quiet and convincing conviction."

Alan Flynn, Everything Theatre.

An ARC Stockton Production. Co-commissioned by ARC Stockton and Ovalhouse.

Supported by Northern Stage through the North East Artist Development Network.

Tickets £10 | £6 concessions

Photo by Allison Davies

ovAlhouse CreATive YouTh Ovalhouse Upstairs Fri 20 & Sat 21 March 7pm, Fri 20 March: post-show panel discussion 13-18 Truth about Youth Drama Group presents

Who deCides? directed by kat gill | Assistant directors olagite oseke and rachel Moore Who Decides? is a thought-provoking new play by Ovalhouse’s 13-18 Drama Group, created in collaboration with a professional playwright and director alongside two of our Truth about Youth Young Associates.

With an upcoming general election, this play explores young people’s opinions on current political issues. What does the future hold for today’s young Londoners? Come and find out ‘who decides’ the future of our city!

Tickets £4 | £3 concessions Ovalhouse Café Sat 21 March 8.30pm

TruTh ABouT YouTh live nighT! hosted by sonority and Young Associate Corey | resident dJ: Conradkira Enjoy an evening of original beats, words, rhymes and rhythm, showcasing new talent with a political twist – and find out what some of London’s youth are truly thinking about the upcoming General Election!

Produced by Ovalhouse Young Associates and Truth about Youth, LIVE NIGHT! gives emerging artists a platform for their voice. Celebrate new London talent with performances from Spoken Word Artists, Singers, Musicians and much more!

Tickets £2

ovAlhouse CreATive YouTh Ovalhouse Café Fri 10 and Sat 11 April 2pm

CoMe dine WiTh us For six months The Reader Organisation, Ovalhouse Young Associates and Stockwell Good Neighbours elders group have been meeting and reading and talking. With cups of tea, biscuits and honesty we have become closer, sharing memories, history, hopes and cultures.

We’d like to invite you to lunch. There will be delicious food, readings, conversation and surprises along the way. Come and join us for a revealing, moving and unique experience.

The Reader Organisation is an award-winning charitable social enterprise working to connect people with great literature through shared reading. Stockwell Good Neighbours is an elders group who meet regularly in Lambeth. The Truth about Youth Young Associates are young arts leaders at Ovalhouse training throughout the Creative Youth department for a year.

Tickets £4

ovAlhouse CreATive YouTh Ovalhouse Downstairs Fri 24 April and Sat 25 April 7.30pm, Sat 25 April 2pm Ovalhouse Drama Company present

AfTer All This directed by Phil McCormack | Co-directed by naomi shoba Assistant directors Ella Donaldson and Sam Hafez

This is a caught glance that bothers us for the rest of the day.

This is the quest for love that is now played out through an app on our phone, rather than a live encounter.

This is the conversation with a friend that allows you to offload the emotional baggage you’ve been carrying around for weeks.

We have been pulling apart the things that we feel are defining our generation, both good and bad. We are trying to work out what our roles are as young adults, figuring out what has been inherited and finding out what can be made our own.

Working with director Phil McCormack and a professional writer, and supported by two TaY Young Associates, the Drama Company have devised this original work, drawing from their own lives and the representations of young people we now see daily in the media.

Tickets £5 | £3 concessions Ovalhouse Creative Youth events are a part of Truth About Youth, a national project designed to counteract widespread negative images of young people, funded by the Co-operative Foundation.

truthaboutyouthlondon.wordpress.com | @TAYlondon1 for more information on all events: ovalhouse.com/under26

Image by Dan Cragg.

Behind The sCenes: process & performance Ovalhouse Upstairs Dance Studio Sat 14 & Sun15, Sat 21 & Sun 22, Sat 28 & Sun 29 March 11am-5pm

deATh for Beginners A residency for live Artists with stacy Makishi Artists! Are you making more ‘dead art’ than ‘live art’? Stacy Makishi wants to take the stiff out of your art.

Death For Beginners is a live art ‘manual’ for art and life! Artists will gain new skills and explore performance during four weekends.

Participants will: • Move faster than think • Create faster than critique • Resist resistance • Pulverize procrastination This workshop includes strategies for creating text, solo performance and collaborating with others, and culminates in a funeral/resurrection service on Easter Sunday 5 April 7pm at New Unity Church with atheist minister Andy Pakula. stacymakishi.com

“Stacy Makishi is a master of mischief. She can draw out the creative juice from any situation in the most inspiring ways. She rocks!” Shlomo

Cost £8 per day Funeral/resurrection service on Easter Sunday: free admission.

Photo by Vick Ryder.

Ovalhouse Downstairs Mon 25 –Thurs 28 May 10.30am-7pm, Fri 29 May 10.30am-6pm & 7.45pm

oPen house #4: rioT ACT with Chris goode & Company open house is not a show. it’s an invitation.

Chris Goode & Company launched its Open House format in 2011.

The way it works is simple. A core group of CG&Co artists walks into a theatre on a Monday morning, to start a process from scratch.

During the week, they work together with whoever wants to join in, to make a performance that the assembled company shares with an audience on the Friday evening.

For this fourth Open House, curated by Chris Goode and Maddy Costa, the company wants to explore the ongoing legacies of Riot Grrrl and 90’s queercore. We’ll be working in the common ground between punk, DIY culture, feminist/queer anarchism and allied movements, and feeding those energies into a contemporary context. We’ll also be compiling a zine to be launched at Friday’s celebratory final performance.

Anyone is welcome. Come for five minutes or spend a few hours, or a few days, being part of the conversation and the creation. However you want to engage is up to you. We create a friendly, inclusive, respectful environment for anyone to enter and enjoy. (If you have particular access needs, please let us know). Artists, makers and activists of all stripes are welcome, but so is anyone who just feels like taking a chance on something out of the ordinary. chrisgoodeandcompany.co.uk | @chrisgoodeandco

The doors are open Mon – Thurs 10.30am-7pm; fri 10.30am-6pm.

Come in at any time, no need to book. free entry. friday performance / zine launch: 7.45pm. Pay what you decide.

Chris Goode & Company, The Albemarle Gathering. Photo: Richard Davenport.

Behind The sCenes: process & performance As well as public performances for which you can buy tickets, Ovalhouse curates a programme of activity which helps artists turn their ideas into the next step in their creative and professional practice.

ARTIST SURGERIES We’re dedicated to providing a bespoke support system for artists at an early stage in their careers. We’ve noticed that sometimes, the most useful thing we can do is be a critical friend to talk through an idea.

From 4 March 2015, we’ll offer a weekly lunch time surgery for artists.

Anyone can come along to ask advice or talk through an idea with us.

Just sign in at the Ovalhouse Box Office any Wednesday between 1.30pm and 2.30pm.

IN RESIDENCE

As Wide And As deeP As The seA by selina Thompson Selina Thompson is an artist and performer based in Leeds. Her work is playful, participatory and intimate, focused on the politics of identity, and how this defines our bodies, lives and environments. She has made work for pubs, cafes, hairdressers, toilets, and sometimes even galleries and theatres...

In May 2015 she'll be in residence at Ovalhouse working on As Wide And As Deep As The Sea, a body of work exploring Black British Identity: how it is defined, the declining visibility of Black culture within the UK, and an analysis of where discourse currently stands within this country.

For more information check our website or visit selinathompson.co.uk

Photo: Shot by Sodium.

25% OFF YOUR ORDER WHEN YOU BOOK FOR 2 OR MORE SHOWS All tickets must be purchased in one transaction; discount applied at checkout.

Offer does not apply to Death For Beginners, Big Smother 12 Hour special event or Creative Youth events.

MAzí MAs resTAurAnT Mazí Mas is a roaming restaurant that brings exciting, authentic and global home cooking to the public, and in so doing creates employment opportunities for aspiring women food entrepreneurs from migrant and refugee communities.

Mazí Mas are taking over our cafe throughout the spring season with delicious menus from around the world – including Senegal, Peru, Philippines, Brazil, and Ethiopia – changing daily as each chef brings tastes and stories from her country to Ovalhouse theatre goers.

Check our website for more details.

diArY 11 - 14 March

If The Lights Are Too Bright by Alex Rand (FiRST BiTES)

14 - 29 March

Death For Beginners with Stacy Makishi

17 - 28 March

All The Things You Said by Compagnie TDU

20 & 21 March

Who Decides by Ovalhouse 13-18 Drama Group

21 March

Truth about Youth LIVE NIGHT!

25 - 28 March

Our Carnal Hearts by Rachel Mars (FiRST BiTES)

1 - 4 April

Catalina by Untold Theatre (FiRST BiTES)

1 - 4 April

Break Yourself by Ira Brand

8 - 11 April

Big Smother by HighRise Theatre

8 - 11 April

How To Be A Man by Jon Coleman (FiRST BiTES)

8 - 11 April

Hard Graft by David Sheppeard

10 & 11 April

Come Dine With Us with The Reader Organisation

11 April

Big Smother 12 Hour special event by HighRise Theatre

15 - 18 April

Ancient Fragments by Russell Bender (FiRST BiTES)

21 - 25 April

Dead Royal by Chris Ioan Roberts

24 & 25 April

After All This by Ovalhouse Drama Company

30 April & 1 May

Story#1 by Greg Wohead and Rachel Mars

29 April - 10 May

How To Win Against History by Seiriol Davies

4 - 22 May

As Wide and As Deep as the Sea: R&D by Selina Thompson

6 - 16 May

Cuddles by Joseph Wilde

12 - 16 May

DAS SPEIL by Philipp Obelohr

20 - 24 May

O NO! by Jamie Wood

20 - 23 May

Learning How To Die by Luca Rutherford

25 - 29 May

RIOT ACT Open House #4 with Chris Goode and Company

27 - 30 May

I, Myself and Me by Rachael Young (FiRST BiTES)

3 - 6 June

The Diary of a Hounslow Girl by Ambreen Razia (FiRST BiTES)

suPPorT ovAlhouse BeCoMe A fABulous 50 fundrAiser They did it! Thanks to Jessica and Toby at Leonard Leese for completing Ovalhouse’s first fundraising skydive!

In celebration of 50 Years of Ovalhouse, we are looking for individuals and organisations to support our work by taking part in, or organising, fundraising events – do fifty things for Ovalhouse! From running up Ovalhouse’s stairs 50 times to walking 50km, you can choose to do almost anything (so long as it is safe and legal!).

Contact julia.calver@ovalhouse.com with your ideas or visit our website to see how you can help.

CAPiTAl CAMPAign We’re on the move... after 15 years of planning, we will be settling in the middle of Brixton and due to open in 2017. To talk about getting involved, please contact Katie Milton, Development Director – Capital Campaign on how you can join us on our journey and beyond.

AluMni MeMBer Were you in an Ovalhouse youth group, production or involved in Ovalhouse in some other way? Become an Alumni Supporter for as little as £1 per month and help shape the future of Ovalhouse.

Contact Katie Milton, Development Director – Capital Campaign: katie.milton@ovalhouse.com and check out the website for more news on our move to Brixton: ‘This Is My Place!’

ovalhouse 52-54 kennington oval, london se11 5sW Box office 020 7582 7680 Book online ovalhouse.com TiCkeTs: from £2 - £10, check event pages for prices firsT BiTes: all tickets £5 seAson offer: book for 2 or more shows in our spring 2015 season and receive 25% off your booking. Discount applied at checkout.

(Offer does not include Death For Beginners, Big Smother 12 Hour special event or Creative Youth events.)

getting here Nearest tube OVAL (Northern Line) or VAUXHALL (Victoria Line & BR) Buses 3, 36, 133, 155, 159, 185, 436 Car parking for disabled visitors only, on-street parking after 6.30pm Barclays Bike dock directly opposite, on Kennington Oval.

We are not in the congestion zone.

Café Our cafe is open from 6pm on theatre evenings for home cooked meals from the Mazí Mas pop-up restaurant.

Theatre Bar and garden Our Theatre Bar and Pagoda Garden are open throughout our spring season from 6pm for a full bar service and hot and cold drinks.

Access Ovalhouse Downstairs, Café, Bar and Garden @ovalhouse

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