Stage One Awards £30,000 to Gavin Kalin for Young Vic's West End Transfer of A DOLL'S HOUSE

Stage One, the charity that supports new UK theatre producers and productions, has just announced the latest recipient to receive its Start-Up Investment Fund. Gavin Kalin has been awarded £30,000 by the charity to co-produce the West End transfer of the critically-acclaimed Young Vic production of A Doll's House. He will co-produce alongside the Young Vic, Mark Rubinstein and Neil Laidlaw. The production will open at the Duke of York's Theatre in August 2013 and will see Hattie Morahan reprising her award-winning role of Nora Helmer with Dominic Rowan playing Torvald.

Gavin is the founder of Totally Theatre Productions, a TV/Video Production Company that specialises in working with the theatre industry. His clients include Wicked, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Leicester Curve and Chichester Festival Theatre. In 2013, Gavin set up Gavin Kalin Productions Ltd to produce theatre in the West End, on tour and internationally. A Doll's House is Gavin's second West End credit this summer with The Ladykillers opening at the Vaudeville Theatre on the 29 June, with more shows to be announced shortly.

Gavin commented "Within seven months I have gone from attending the Stage One New Producer Course to being awarded the Start-up Fund and I could not be happier. Stage One has helped me realise my potential for working as a theatre producer and I thank everyone involved in this fantastic organisation for their continued support and guidance.

Within a matter of days I went from watching and falling in love with A Doll's House at the Young Vic, to having dinner with Neil Laidlaw - whom I met at the Stage One New Producer course - to then having detailed discussions with Mark Rubinstein and the Young Vic about joining them as co-producers on the potential West End transfer."

Directed by Carrie Cracknell and adapted by the Olivier award-winning playwright Simon Stephens, A Doll's House premiered at the Young Vic in July 2012 and returned in March this year when it celebrated a second sell-out run.

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House premiered in 1879 in Copenhagen, the second in a series of realist plays by Ibsen, and provoked huge controversy with its apparently feminist message. In Ibsen's play, Nora Helmer has secretly borrowed a large amount of money to pay for her husband, Torvald, to recover from illness on a sabbatical in Italy. Torvald's perception of Nora is of a silly, naïve spendthrift, so it is only when the truth begins to emerge and Torvald realises who Nora really is that unmendable cracks appear in their marriage. For further information on the production visit www.adollshouselondon.com. For more about StageOne, go to: www.stageone.uk.com.

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