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⭐️🎭 Interview: @brxhousetheatre Team During lockdown Brixton House is looking back on four of its brilliant Ovalhouse productions. We will be reviewing each, but before we do we’ve been lucky enough to have a chat with the team 🎭⭐️

Scheduled to open in Spring 2021, Brixton House is taking the opportunity during lockdown to look back on four of its brilliant productions from its Ovalhouse days. Filmed by LIVR, the 360° virtual reality theatre platform, Random Selfies(4th June) from Mike Kenny, WHITE (25th June) and GREY (2nd July) from Koko Brown will each be available for free for only one week on the Brixton House website.

⭐️🤳 Review: Random Selfies 🤳⭐️ Random Selfies "is the perfect tool to open a frank and honest conversation between a parent/ carer/ teacher and child" about the dangers of social media and loneliness.

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New and upcoming venue, Brixton House (which is due to open in Spring 2021) is taking the opportunity during lockdown to look back on four of its brilliant productions from its Ovalhouse days. Filmed by LIVR, the 360° virtual reality theatre platform, Random Selfies from Mike Kenny, WHITE and GREY  from Koko Brown and Derailed from Little Soliderwill each be available for free for one…

Mirabel at Ovalhouse, London

Chris Goode’s reputation precedes him. When you mention you’ve going to his new show, Mirabel, your theatre friends will blurt out how lucky you are. Winner of four Fringe First awards, and ‘the theatremaker’s theatremaker’ (Time Out), he’s built up an enviable body of nonconformist work, tackling a wide range of unpredictable subject matter.

Mirabel is no exception to this pattern – undertaking…

Ovalhouse announce Summer Season @Ovalhouse

Ovalhouse’s Summer Season 2018 celebrates innovation and experimentation with an incredible programme of six new shows plus seven FiRST BiTES. Exploring radical themes of social mobility and the violence of austerity, while inviting audiences to an eccentric bee party and a brand new human surround-sound experience, this eclectic season seeks to be accessible to all.

Ovalhouse continue to break…

New play Coconut challenges dated Asian female stereotypes @Ovalhouse

Based on writer Guleraana Mir’s real experience of interracial and intercultural relationships, Coconut will embark on a UK tour this summer. This fresh new play challenges dated Asian female stereotypes with an honest portrait of the contemporary British Asian experience. With its unremitting humour, Mir explores the impact of religion and faith – and the lack of it – in modern romance.

As her…

Ovalhouse announces 2018 Spring Season @Ovalhouse

Ovalhouse begin 2018 with another dynamic and innovative season of shows plus four new FiRST BiTES. For the first time, Owen Calvert-Lyons, Ovalhouse’s Head of Theatre & Artist Development, will be directing a brand-new show Random Selfies by Olivier Award-winning playwright Mike Kenny, as part of a three-year research project into child loneliness.

Their Spring Season will open with Medea…

I interviewed Owen Calvert-Lyons @Owencl about @Ovalhouse upcoming move and season.

What are the key themes in Ovalhouse’s Autumn Season?

The Autumn Season at Ovalhouse explores the ‘unseen’ people in our communities: children in care, whistle-blowers, sex-workers, transgender people and asylum seekers.  Often these groups remain unseen because their stories are difficult to hear.  This season, we give voice to those who are unheard.  Louise Wallwein presents her bold and…