Diane Page has been announced as this year’s winner of the JMK Award, with her production of Statements after an Arrest under the Immorality Act by Athol Fugard. 

This show forms part of the Orange Tree Theatre’s upcoming Recovery Season, previewing from 28 August and running until 2 October. Performances on 23 & 24 September will also be streamed live via OT On Screen.

This award offers Page the chance to direct a full-scale Orange Tree show, where she will work with designer Niall McKeever. This year’s runner ups, and the recipients of £2000, are Rafaella Marcus and designer Anna Reid for their proposal for Peggy Pickett Sees the Face of God by Roland Schimmelpfennig.

Diane Page said: “I am beyond thrilled to be the recipient of the JMK Award. It is such an incredible feeling to have the opportunity to stage Statements after an Arrest under the Immorality Act by Athol Fugard - a brilliant and poignant play that is in dialogue with the world now - and I'm overjoyed to be able to do it at the Orange Tree Theatre. I want to thank the JMK Trust for their support and keeping this award going - especially at this time. My creative team and I cannot wait to share the production with you.”

Artistic Director of the Orange Tree Theatre, Paul Miller, added: “I am seriously delighted that Diane Page, this year’s winner of the JMK Award, will play a key part in the OT’s recovery season. Her passion and insight in to Athol Fugard’s seminal classic blew us away, and in particular her feeling for it as a powerful response to recent events. In Diane the JMK Award has once again struck gold. I can’t wait for audiences to return and experience this electric play, in the hands of such an exciting director.”

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