'HOUNSLOW GIRL', FiRST BiTES and More Set for Ovalhouse's 2016 Spring/Summer Season

Ovalhouse's exciting Spring/Summer season 2016 shines a light on their passion for discovering and supporting imaginative voices. Productions play Ovalhouse (52-54 Kennington Oval, London SE11 5SW) from Wednesday 4th May to Saturday 23rd July 2016.

The dynamic mini season kicks off with The Diary of a Hounslow Girl by Ambreen Razia with Black Theatre Live (4th - 6th May) which is told through the eyes of a 16-year-old British Muslim Girl growing up in West London.

Ovalhouse are also proud to feature How to Win Against History by Seiriol Davies (21st - 23rd July) - a work that Ovalhouse has supported since its inception as a FiRST BiTE in 2014. Now presented as a full production, How to Win Against History is a fierce and fabulous costume drama musical about Henry Cyril Paget, the 5th Marquis of Anglesey.

Stella Kanu, Executive Producer of Ovalhouse, comments, This season is the perfect showcase of the voices that our audiences love - urgent, historical, musical, funny, movement driven, digital, authoritative. Yet the season still retains its grassroots feel. This bite size season features work that shines a light on our near lifelong obsession with discovering imaginative thinking and giving space to independent voices, often quiet always persistent - voices that have something vital to say about the here and now.

The Spring/Summer season will also see five FiRST BiTES - Ovalhouse's programme of exciting new works-in-development. They give the audience the chance to offer their feedback to help shape what each piece will become. The work might be unfinished or rough around the edges, but the ideas will certainly be vibrant.

The five new FiRST BiTES are:

4Women by Loud Talkin' (12th May)
A new play inspired by Nina Simone's song Four Women, it tells the story of four generations of British women who come together to save their 21st Century descendant.

Sister by Alex Groves and Rebecca Hanbury (27th May)
An outpouring of memories - some tender, some comic, and others painfully raw- this bold new production gets right to the heart of family life.

Strawberry Vale by 9 Grams of Moon (30th June - 2nd July)
A new multimedia production exploring the lines of fantasy and reality in an interactive world of projected digital magic, with frame by frame hand-drawn animation and original music.

ECHO_NARCISSUS by Emma Stirling and Nick Finegan (6th - 7th July)
This is a live and video performance based on the myth of Echo and Narcissus, told through celebrity interviews, Instagram obsessions and online personas.

Waking Beauty by Leigh Douglas (13th - 16th July)
Minerva Collective present a coming-of-age fairytale for the twenty-first century in a fresh look from an LGBTQ perspective at some traditional stories.

IF YOU GO:

Performances at Ovalhouse, 52-54 Kennington Oval, London SE11 5SW. Ovalhouse is located directly opposite the Oval cricket ground. The nearest underground stations are Oval (on Northern line) and Vauxhall (on the Northern and Victoria lines). The nearest rail station is Vauxhall.

Tickets for The Diary of a Hounslow Girl are available priced £12 (£7 concessions) and tickets for How to Win Against History are £13 (£8 concessions).

All FiRST BiTES tickets are £5 (£8 on the door). Available from Ovalhouse Box Office and www.ovalhouse.com, 020 7582 7680. Get 25% off tickets when you book for 2 or more shows!

Ovalhouse is a lively theatre and arts centre on the Kennington Oval, opposite the famous cricket ground. For the past 50 years, Ovalhouse has been part of the London fringe, providing development and performance space to experimental, radical and overlooked artists. Whether you love a show or not there is always so much talk about after a performance here! Today Ovalhouse is known for theatre and performance that speaks to a world beyond the mainstream, and continues to be a vital home for boundary-pushing art and artists with an eye on the future.

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