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Oval House Theatre has won the Mark Marvin Rent Subsidy Award at the 2009 EMPTY SPACE ... Peter Brook Awards.

Published Date: Thursday November 2009

The Rent Subsidy Award is given to collaboration between visiting company and presenting theatre in support of a future planned production. Oval House Theatre was awarded the £1500 contribution towards its collaboration with director George Perrin on a double bill of plays by Ché Walker, Crazy Love and Burnt-Up Love. The production will take place in 2010.

After receiving the award from West End producer Peter Wilson, Oval House Theatre Programmer, Ben Evans, stated:
“We were delighted to be nominated for this year’s Mark Marvin Rent Subsidy Award alongside two respected and important companies, Finborough Theatre and Trafalgar Studio 2. Winning the award of £1500 to put towards a production we have desired to stage for over a year, a powerful double bill of plays by Ché Walker, is surprising and wonderful news. However, even more than the money itself, we value the encouragement and support of peers and colleagues which the award represents.
“Oval House Theatre is not usually a producing company. Rather, we work with visiting companies and individual artists – offering help, expertise and resources to help make good work great.
“On occasion, however, it is important that we are able to nail our colours to the mast and declare what we believe to be truly excellent work. In these two plays by Ché Walker, and in the directing of George Perrin, we can confidently say this collaboration represents that excellence”

George Perrin first directed at Oval House Theatre when directing Levi David Addai’s play, House of Agnes, for Paines Plough in 2008. As Associate Director of Paines Plough, George directed Crazy Love for Oran Mor in Glasgow, and for five performances at the Shunt Vaults.


THE EMPTY SPACE ... Peter Brook Awards founded by Blanche Marvin in 1989 and held at the National Theatre Studio (the awards’ new home), were created out of a need to raise the profile of fringe theatre.

The only awards ceremony to reward venues rather than specific productions, the Empty Space…Peter Brook Awards are presented annually by Blanche Marvin’s London TheatReviews with the V and A Theatre Collections and newly added National Theatre Studio.

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