at the National Theatre Studio on 1st November 2016
Blanche Marvin is one of the wonders of the world. Not sure of her age. I remember her ninetieth birthday, but she is still beautiful, a fashion plate in her beaded turquoise dress and her white hair cut into a new tomboy hairstyle.
She instigated and still organises the Empty Space Awards every year. This is the 27th anniversary of these events.
Peter Brook named the Empty Space award in celebration of all the theatrical producers who can put on theatre in any found free space – in other words, what we know as the Fringe. Usually small companies who cannot afford to produce their work in big formal Theatres.
There are five awards:
The Dan Crawford Innovative awards in remembrance of Dan Crawford who was one of the first to open a theatre in a public House and kept it running until his death. Nica Burns of Nimex Theatre is responsible for this sponsorship.
She instigated and still organises the Empty Space Awards every year. This is the 27th anniversary of these events.
Peter Brook named the Empty Space award in celebration of all the theatrical producers who can put on theatre in any found free space – in other words, what we know as the Fringe. Usually small companies who cannot afford to produce their work in big formal Theatres.
There are five awards:
The Dan Crawford Innovative awards in remembrance of Dan Crawford who was one of the first to open a theatre in a public House and kept it running until his death. Nica Burns of Nimex Theatre is responsible for this sponsorship.
The selection of company for this award of £2000 comprises Lyn Gardner (Guardian) Dominic Cavendish(Telegraph) Mark Shenton (Stage) Fiona Mountford (Standard) and Andrzej Lukowski (Time Out) with consultants Michael Billington (Guardian) Susannah Clapp (Observer) Jeremey Kingston (Times) and Paul Taylor (Independent)
The Dan Crawford Award went to Good Chance Theatre for their work in the Jungle Refugee Camp in Calais.
The Dan Crawford Award went to Good Chance Theatre for their work in the Jungle Refugee Camp in Calais.
The Special Achievement Award sponsored by Peter Brook Theatre Awards Trust was awarded to Erica Whyman of the Royal Shakespeare Company for outstanding work as first female artistic director of The Swan and the Re-opening of The Other Place Theatre.
The 27th Anniversary award had five nominations
Found111, Shoreditch Town Hall, Slung Low, Soho Upstairs, the Young Vic Studio and the New Diorama.
The Selection Committee for this award was Lyn Gardner, Dominic Cavendish, Mark Shenton, Fiona Mountford, Andrzej Lukowski and Blanche Marvin with Consultants Michael Billington, Susannah Clapp, Jeremy Kingston and Paul Taylor.
Found111, Shoreditch Town Hall, Slung Low, Soho Upstairs, the Young Vic Studio and the New Diorama.
The Selection Committee for this award was Lyn Gardner, Dominic Cavendish, Mark Shenton, Fiona Mountford, Andrzej Lukowski and Blanche Marvin with Consultants Michael Billington, Susannah Clapp, Jeremy Kingston and Paul Taylor.
The Award went to David Byrne of the New Diorama in Camden.
After Blanche had closed the formal part of the meeting, we were all invited to eat and drink, courtesy of the Charing Cross Theatre.
After Blanche had closed the formal part of the meeting, we were all invited to eat and drink, courtesy of the Charing Cross Theatre.
The awards are held every year, and it is an opportunity to meet up with people one hasn’t seen since the same time last year. A jolly social occasion.
Long may it continue.
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