John and Katy Plews had always wanted to run a theatre of their own. So, once they felt they had sufficient experience they started to look at possibilities all over north London. When the opportunity came up at The Gatehouse, close to their home in Highgate Village they knew they’d found what they were looking for. Their production company, Ovation, acquired the lease for the upstairs space in 1987.
Although there has been a licensed building on the site since 1670 and probably for three hundred years before that, the current Victorian building
