Brixton House Theatre is a new artistic hub for Brixton and the new home for the Ovalhouse Theatre, previously located in Kennington, that has been producing exciting and challenging work for new audiences since the 1950s. The new building mixes theatre space together with recording studios, rehearsal rooms, university teachingspaces, and small tech and start-up company workspaces, aiming to blur the boundaries between professional and community facilities. After a pandemic during which the death of live theatre, indeed of theatres themselves, was mooted at times, the opening of Brixton House holds a symbolic value in its reinstatement of faith in shared communal spaces and experience, quite aside from its value as a new local venue. Facingthe south edge of Brixton's covered market, it is the first theatre to serve the area for many years, previous local venues having been either demolished, turned into bingo halls, or bombed - as happened to the original Brixton Theatre in 1940.
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