Oval House Theatre

Events at Oval House Theatre

• Be Good Revolutionaries at Oval House Theatre

  Drama

  8 Mar 2012 to 10 Mar 2012

  In the ramshackle, hideaway house of a rebel leader’s family, we enter a world of memories, rituals and secrets. Daddy has long since gone, lost in the jungle, on a dangerous mission. His wife and daughters crave his return, and as time passes, their waiting-games take a sinister twist.

• Boy in a Dress at Oval House Theatre

  Drama

  14 Feb 2012 to 3 Mar 2012

  Boy in a Dress follows the life story thus far of La JohnJoseph.

• The Cosmos, The Cosmetics at Oval House Theatre

  Drama

  16 Feb 2012 to 18 Feb 2012

  Nick Field's powerful, resonant and intimate story of the struggle to find a place to belong as the 20th Century offers a colourful swan song of underground culture, from the monchrome of Goth clubs to the day-glo of New Age raves. Woven from tales of an eccentric rural youth, lush poetic meditations on the nature of decorated and altered skin and delicious humour, this odyssey of discovery is Spoken Word at its most thrilling.

• Echo at Oval House Theatre

  Drama

  22 Mar 2012 to 24 Mar 2012

  'Echo' is a labyrinthine performance piece that splices together and rips apart the act of self-narration. Shape-shifting and immortal, Echo has lived through many centuries and many continents. Now in London, she embodies an Asian woman in her late twenties, with secrets to share, histories she feels compelled to repeat. She guides audiences through her personal artefacts, while live feed and recorded images flicker alongside, repeating her.