31st Aug - 23 Sept
What happens at BAC COOK UP Cook Up is the creative heart of BAC – everything we do to invent the future of theatre starts here. We support artists to develop new ideas, we offer opportunities for people of all ages to get creative and we host events across the building. We also provide a warm welcome with food and drink for visitors who come to hang out and soak up the atmosphere. And our Cook Up seasons include new Scratch ideas, runs of shows, music, parties and the some of the most exciting new shows touring to London.
TUCK IN
TAKE OUT Bursting out of the walls of BAC, our coproductions developed in partnership with artists are now starting to be presented across London, nationally and internationally, providing you with a chance to see the future of theatre in sites and venues across the UK and beyond.
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Several times a year we present shows and projects that take over large parts of the building. These projects often transform the space and enable audiences to enjoy new perspectives on BAC’s home, Battersea’s former Town Hall. Tuck In productions provide you with a feast of new work and experiences to enjoy together.
INTRO FROM OUR ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Our new programme model Cook Up – Tuck In – Take Out is taking shape. BAC Cook Up in September is bursting with flavour. From Scratch starters to finished feasts. From debate & discussion to a fine plate of food for a fiver. Come to Battersea this September to get your taste of Cook Up. You can choose your main dish on our website and then if you’re hungry for more just add extras online or on the night. Top of the menu is performer Kate Tempest’s Brand New Ancients, a co-production with BAC. We urge you to drop everything and come and experience Kate’s world. Cook Up in September also sees welcome returns for Stewart Lee, Bootworks and John Moran along with many tasty new experiences. If you’ve got something to say then welcome to Dialogue could be for you, or test out the September Talks Lab, meet the Transition Towns Network or try a 1 Minute Manifesto. An all-night Hack & Scratch marks the next stage of our new digital platform for Scratch. Tuck In productions later in the year promise to be feasts of the best in new theatre. The Good Neighbour starts in October and will be an adventure for all ages, taking over the building and spilling onto the streets. November sees the return of Forced Entertainment’s darkly comic new show The Coming Storm. In December come to Kneehigh’s Midnight’s Pumpkin in BAC’s Grand Hall and you shall go to the ball this Christmas! Take Out sees The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey, a BAC and The Paper Cinema co-production on the road, touring to twenty towns and cities across the UK. We are also cooking up plans for some exciting touring partnerships for the future; more about this in our next brochure. We’d love to welcome you to Battersea Arts Centre this autumn. We’re continuing to develop our beautiful Victorian Town Hall home in partnership with artists, Haworth Tompkins architects and with you. Come and give us your feedback on the changes and feed your ideas into the next stage of the journey of our building. We look forward to seeing you soon. David Jubb & David Micklem Joint Artistic Directors @davidjubb @davidmicklem
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COOK UP SEASON - Week One (T THEATRE Etudes: Amsterdam John Moran
Dates: 30 Aug - 01 Sept Time: 7:30pm (9pm on 31st) Price: £10, £8 conc
Book Now From Amsterdam to Bangkok, Moran’s seamless blend of movement, sound and theatricality tell a tale of losing one’s way as a touring artist. John Moran is a distinguished New York composer/director, widely celebrated as the protégé of Philip Glass. His works have featured performers such as Uma Thurman, Iggy Pop and Allen Ginsberg among others.
”One of the leading vanguards in American music-theater.” The New York Times “Moran is a modern day Mozart.” The Boston Globe
John Moran in Thailand John Moran
Dates: 31 Aug Time: 7:30pm Price: £10, £8 conc
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John Moran in Thailand is a chapter in a series of elegant music-theatre performances by John Moran, which tell the tale of losing one’s way as a touring artist. The performance complements Etudes: Amsterdam.
Multibuy offer Etudes: Amsterdam & John Moran in Thailand £15 for both performances 3
Thur 30 Aug - Sat 1 Sept) SCRATCH
SCRATCH ONLINE Hack & Scratch Night Dates: 31 Aug Time: 7pm Price: FREE
Standby For Tape Back-Up: Scratch | Ross Sutherland Dates: 30 Aug & 1 Sept Time: 8.45pm Price: Pay What You Can
Technologists, artists, lots of coffee, late night food, Scratch challenges…tonight is the night when we invite you to come and explore, test and feedback on BAC’s new digital platform for Scratch. Play and scratch late into the night, quite possibly finishing with a fry up the following morning. The new Scratch platform is supported by ACE, NESTA and AHRC.
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Ross Sutherland takes a videotape that used to belong to his Granddad and remixes the material into a brand-new audiovisual poem on memory, death and reruns. “Amazing, hypnotic, touching” – The Londonist
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WEEKLY PLANNER Thursday 30 Aug 7pm________These Trees are Made of Blood 7:30pm _____Etudes: Amsterdam 8.45pm _____Standby for Tape Back Up
Friday 31 Aug These Trees Are Made of Blood: Scratch | Amy Draper Dates: 30 Aug - 1 Sept Time: 7pm Price: Pay What You Can
7pm________These Trees are Made of Blood 7pm________Hack & Scratch Night 7:30pm ____John Moran in Thailand 9pm _______Etudes: Amsterdam
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1978. With the world watching, Argentina has just won the World Cup and the streets of Buenos Aires are buzzing with patriotism. The clubs are open all hours, drinks are cheap and the music is hot. Step inside for an evening of celebratory cabaret and live music. But how long can the façade be kept up?
Saturday 1 Sept 7pm________These Trees are Made of Blood 7:30pm _____Etudes: Amsterdam 8.45pm _____Standby for Tape Back Up
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Week Two (Tues 4 - Sat 8 Sept) THEATRE
Brand New Ancients Kate Tempest Dates: 4 - 22 Sept Time: 8pm Price: £12, £8 conc Book Now
World Premiere
The gods are in the betting shops, the gods are in the café, the gods are watching telly in their flats...the gods are at the doctors, getting something for the stress, the gods are in the toilets having unprotected sex... Against the dark city backdrop, the lives of two families unfold as ancient myth seeps into modern times. The Gods of today are all around us, waiting for their moment to emerge. Poet and rapper Kate Tempest brings us an epic spoken tale of the everyday Gods. Accompanied by a live quartet of violin, cello, percussion and tuba, Brand New Ancients is the story of everyday epics and small heroics. Ages 14+ A BAC and Kate Tempest co production, co-commissioned by the Albany. 5
LOOK OUT
THEATRE
For Lucy Ellinson’s pop-up art project One Minute Manifesto MORE INFO >>
INTIMATE THEATRE Motor Vehicle Sundown Andy Field
Dates: 6 - 8, 13 - 15 Sept Time: 6-9:30pm Every 30mins Price: £5 Book Now
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Sweetshop Revolution Dates: 6 - 8 Sept Time: 7.30pm Price: £10, £8 conc
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Join the city-dwelling bloke stuck in the woods on community service, who prefers birds in skirts to those up trees, and Colin, a nature loving vegan with a secret penchant for barbequed chaffinch, on a tour of an invisible woodland... A funny, thought-provoking and highly physical show, accompanied by mugs of cider.
An audio piece for two in a parked car in the middle of a busy city. You will navigate your way through rolling fields and along endless highways, gazing out of the windows at a world of your own invention.
WEEKLY PLANNER Tuesday 4 Sept
8pm_______________Brand New Ancients
Wednesday 5 Sept
8pm_______________Brand New Ancients
Thursday 6 Sept
From 6pm_________Motor Vehicle Sundown 7pm_______________Only Wolves and Lions 7.30pm____________Tree 8pm_______________Brand New Ancients
Only Wolves and Lions
Friday 7 Sept
Unfinished Business
Dates: 6 - 8 Sept Time: 7pm | Price: £15
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A dinner with a difference. Mixing cooking, performance and a good old chat, Only Wolves and Lions takes a fresh look at human behaviour in the pursuit of happiness.
Please bring one raw ingredient to contribute to the meal. Visit bac.org.uk for details.
From 6pm_________Motor Vehicle Sundown 7pm______________ Only Wolves and Lions 7.30pm____________Tree 8pm_______________Brand New Ancients
Saturday 8 Sept
From 6pm_________Motor Vehicle Sundown 7pm_______________Only Wolves and Lions 7.30pm____________Tree 8pm_______________Brand New Ancients
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Week Three (Thurs 13 - Sat 15 Sept) THEATRE Brand New Ancients Kate Tempest
Dates: 04 - 22 Sept Time: 8pm Price: £12, £8 conc
Ages 14+
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Against the dark city backdrop, the lives of two families unfold as ancient myth seeps into modern times. The Gods of today are all around us, just waiting for their moment to emerge. Poet and rapper Kate Tempest brings us an epic spoken tale of the everyday Gods. Brand New Ancients is the story of everyday epics and small heroics.
Motor Vehicle Sundown Andy Field
Dates: 6 - 8, 13 - 15 Sept Time: 6 - 9:30pm, every 30mins Price: £5
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Motor Vehicle Sundown is an audio piece for two in a parked car in the middle of a busy city. It is a journey through the history of our relationship to this most mythologised of objects and the dream of America. You will navigate your way through rolling fields and along endless highways, gazing out of the windows at a world of your own invention.
Puffball Upsticks
Dates: 13 - 15 Sept Time: 7:30pm Price: £10, £8 concs
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Puffball is an owl... Puffball is unwell... Puffball must fly. A true story of recovery as told by a man with big hair, Puffball examines the nuts and bolts of human empathy, incorporating the cathartic magic of Microsoft Paint. This intimate show sifts through the remnants of an epic fight between body and mind, human and animal. Written, directed and drawn by Caroline Williams. Performed by Christopher Brett Bailey.
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SCRATCH
For Lucy Ellinson’s pop-up art project One Minute Manifesto MORE INFO >>
TRANSITION TOWNS Holocene: Scratch David Sheppeard Performs At Times
Dates: 14 & 15, 20 & 22 Sept Time: 8:30pm Pay What You Can Book Now
Reflections on eruptions, both geological and emotional, in a world intent on destruction. This play may or may not involve the building of a volcano…
Transition Towns Conference Cabaret Dates: 15 Sept Time: 8-10pm Price: FREE
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BAC and the Transition Town Network welcome you to the Grand Hall for an evening filled with Music, Theatre, Spoken Word, Film and Talks. Get a long-lasting shot of inspiration, insight and humour to help you through these extraordinary times. Compered by the “... not only funny, but tender and true, Matt Harvey” Guardian
Yeti: Scratch
Peter McMaster Dates: 13 - 15 Sept Time: 7pm Pay What You Can Book Now
Peter McMaster looks at the transition from adolescence to adulthood in this poignant exploration of his own relationship with the mysterious yeti of the himalayas. McMaster draws parallels between his own endeavors to discover the mysterious man figure he is becoming and historical expeditions to discover the wild man of the mountains.
BAC Talks Lab:
Transition Towns Date: 13 Sept Time: 6:30pm ‘til late Price: FREE More Info
Artists, audiences, young people and members of our local community get together with the Transition Town Network for an evening of discussion and debate.
WEEKLY PLANNER Thurs 13 Sept From 6pm_________Motor Vehicle Sundown 6:30pm ___________BAC Talks Lab 7pm ______________Yeti : Scratch 7.30pm____________Puffball 8pm_______________Brand New Ancients
Friday 14 Sept From 6pm_________Motor Vehicle Sundown 7pm_______________Yeti : Scratch 7.30pm____________Puffball 8pm_______________Brand New Ancients 8.30pm____________Holocene: Scratch
Saturday 15 Sept From 6pm_________Motor Vehicle Sundown 7pm_______________Yeti: Scratch 7.30pm____________Puffball 8pm_______________Brand New Ancients 8pm_______________Transition Town Cabaret 8.30pm____________Holocene: Scratch
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Week Four (Thurs 20 – Sat 22 Sept) THEATRE Brand New Ancients Kate Tempest
Dates: 04 - 22 Sept Time: 8pm Price: £12, £8 conc
Ages 14+
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Poet and rapper Kate Tempest brings us an epic spoken tale of the everyday Gods. Accompanied by a live quartet of violin, cello, percussion and tuba, Brand New Ancients is the story of everyday epics and small heroics.
John Cage - Indeterminacy
Steve Beresford, Tania Chen, Stewart Lee, & Alan Tomlinson Dates: 23 Sept Time: 7pm Book Now Price: £10, £8 concs
Indeterminacy was originally recorded in 1959, with David Tudor playing the piano and John Cage reading aloud 90 stories, each lasting one minute. Fearless contemporary pianists Tania Chen and Steve Beresford will accompany the comedian Stewart Lee reading Cage’s stories.
The Incredible Book Eating Boy
by Oliver Jeffers | Bootworks Theatre Dates: 22 & 23 Sept Time: 6 minute intervals from 12.30pm Price: £5
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Henry loved books, but not like you and I like books…he loved to EAT books. Bootworks Theatre tells the story of a boy with a voracious appetite for books. And better still, he realises the more books he eats, the smarter he gets. But a book-eating diet isn’t the healthiest of habits, as Henry soon finds out! For ages 4+
Still Night
Berlin Nevada
Dates: 20 & 21 Sept Time: 7pm Price: £10, £8 conc
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Mixing real events and places with mythical ones, Still Night re-invents the city of London, creating it out of the experience of the people who live in it. Part lecture, part dark poem, Berlin Nevada invite you to look at the place that you live with fresh eyes.
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WEEKLY PLANNER
SCRATCH When The Lions Drink: Scratch Bad Host Dates: 21-22 Sept Time: 7pm Price: Pay What You Can Book Now
Infused with poetry, sea shanties and sodden objects, this is a waterlogged tale of intimate goodbyes and catastrophe. Bad Host explore the last hour of a drowned capital through dreamlike worlds and striking reality.
Holocene: Scratch David Sheppeard Performs At Times Dates: 14 & 15, 20 - 22 Sept Time: 8:30pm Pay What You Can Book Now
Reflections on eruptions, both geological and emotional, in a world intent on destruction. This play may or may not involve the building of a volcano‌
Matryoshka: Scratch Ammar Haj Ahmad
Thursday 20 Sept 7pm________Still Night 8pm________Brand New Ancients 8.30pm_____Holocene: Scratch 9.15pm_____Matryoshka: Scratch
Friday 21 Sept 7pm_____When The Lions Drink: Scratch 7pm________Still Night 8pm________Brand New Ancients 9.15pm_____Matryoshka: Scratch
Saturday 22 Sept 12.30-5.30pm ____The Incredible Book Eating Boy 7pm_____When The Lions Drink: Scratch 8pm________Brand New Ancients 8.30pm_____Holocene: Scratch 9.15pm_____Matryoshka: Scratch
Sunday 23 Sept 12.30-5.30pm ____The Incredible Book Eating Boy 7pm________John Cage - Indeterminacy 8pm________Brand New Ancients
Dates: 20 - 22 Sept Time: 9.15pm Price: FREE
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Matryoshka unlocks the ways that we are all connected, through daydreams, nightmares, countries and continents. Directed and devised by Syrian performer Ammar Haj Ahmad
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Tuck In Shows for Autumn and W THEATRE BAC and Bloomberg present
The Good Neighbour Discover Stories of Battersea Dates: 13 Oct - 4 Nov Time: 10:30am, 2:30pm, 6:30pm Price: £8 (£5 previews) Book Now
At Battersea’s old Town Hall, an adventure for all ages is waiting to burst out, take over the building and spill onto the streets. There are countless magical stories to tell about Battersea and the remarkable people who have lived here. Join our performers on one of three captivating journeys to uncover hidden gems from Battersea’s dramatic past. Choose your journey and the adventure begins…. Journey 1: Young Adventurers (Recommended for ages 6+) Uncover the mystery of George Neighbour Journey 2: Intrepid Explorers (Recommended for ages 13+) A theatrical guided tour by Uninvited Guests Journey 3: Early Investigators (Recommended for 5s and under) An animated play space for children and adults
All Adventurers and Explorers will begin their journey together and will be reunited for the end of the performance.
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Winter 2012 THEATRE
The Coming Storm
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Forced Entertainment
Dates: 20 Nov - 1 Dec Time: 7.30pm Price: £17 (£13 Concs) After holding the UK premiere here in June, Forced Entertainment bring their highly successful show back to Battersea Arts Centre In this new work international innovators Forced Entertainment tangle and cross-cut multiple stories to make a compelling and unstable performance. From love and death to sex and laundry, from shipwrecks to falling snow, personal anecdotes rub shoulders with imaginary movies, and half-remembered novels bump into distorted fairytales. ‘Then slowly, all hell breaks loose’ The Times ‘a powerful and important piece of theatre’ What’s on Stage
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Tuck In Show for Christmas 2012
Midnight’s Pumpkin Kneehigh Theatre Dates: 08 Dec - 13 Jan Time: 7.30pm (matinee 2:30pm) Price: Tickets from £15 Night is falling and preparations are well underway for a Royal Wedding, but with a guest list that includes a step-mother, ugly sisters and Prince Charming you are in for a night of mischievous magic all before the clock strikes 12. You’re invited to join the party as renowned theatre makers Kneehigh are back at Battersea Arts Centre with a tipsy, tingling and footstomping new Christmas hit for all the family - so grab your dancing shoes and glass slippers and head down to the Ball.
Ages 6+
d n a p u o r als G e d ily le m a f b a l i a av
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TAKE OUT The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey We Hope That You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?) This autumn BAC Take Out sees The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey and Made In China’s We Hope You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie) head out on nation wide tours. Both shows had fantastic runs at BAC in the Spring, and we are now taking them out of the walls of the building and bringing them to towns and cities across the country. For full details check online.
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CAFE/BAR Eat | Drink | Meet… everything you need for a perfect night is wrapped up inside the BAC Café Bar. LUNCH | DINNER | COFFEE | CAKES Our delicious and seasonal range of food is all created fresh on site each day including the dishes in our fabulous Food for a Fiver offer. BAC is all about sharing, whether it is a few drinks with friends or chatting to the artists responsible for the next big thing in theatre. From 10am Mon-Fri you can sample our range of delicious homemade cakes with a cup of Nude Espresso coffee from London’s leading micro-roastery. www.nudeespresso.com
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ALSO AT BAC MORE TO DISCOVER... DIALOGUE Dialogue is coming to BAC! For the duration of this Cook-Up season, the Dialogue team – led by Jake Orr (A Younger Theatre) and Maddy Costa (The Guardian/states of deliquescence) – will be roving around the venue, curating unexpected engagements between performers, audiences and theatre-writers. Launched this year, Dialogue is a new collaborative playspace for anyone who’s curious about theatre. Working online and off, they aim to challenge perspectives, inspire new conversations and reshape criticism as a creative practice. Visit them at welcometodialogue.com then come to BAC and play.
HOMEGROWN Whether you are interested in making friends and having fun, doing something creative or developing a career in the arts – Homegrown, BAC’s company for 12 – 25 year olds, has something to offer you: - Drop in Workshops every Thursday - Opportunities to perform in front of an audience - Opportunities to work with our artists and see professional shows PRICE: Workshops are £4 each (Subsidised places are available for those who need them. Please ask) 18 – 25 yr olds can buy a place for workshops in advance from the Box Office on 020 7223 2223 Like ‘BAC Homegrown’ on Facebook and follow @BACHomegrown on Twitter for the latest updates Autumn Special Project (18 -25 year olds) Work with BAC artists to create a show in December Auditions held in the week beginning 24 September For more information contact homegrown@bac.org.uk
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Connect with BAC BY UNDERGROUND BAC Lavender Hill, Battersea London, SW11 5TN CALL US Box Office: 020 7223 2223 Administration Line: 020 7223 6557 (for all other departments) EMAIL mailbox@bac.org.uk HIRES For enquires and to hire any of the spaces at BAC call the Events team on 020 7326 8211 or email us venues@bac.org.uk
FINDING US
The closest Underground stations to BAC are Clapham Common on the Northern line or Stockwell on the Victoria line. Either of these stations is approximately a 15 minute bus journey away. The 345 bus departs from outside both stations and travels along Lavender Hill stopping outside BAC.
BY TRAIN BAC is a 10 minute journey from either Waterloo or Victoria station. Take the train to Clapham Junction, pass through the shopping centre exit and turn left out of the station. BAC is a 5 - 10 minute walk straight up Lavender Hill. Walk up Lavender Hill past ASDA, the Post Office and Magistrate Courts and cross Latchmere Road. BAC is at the top on the left hand side.
BY BIKE Find your cycle route using TFL Journey Planner.
BY CAR
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BAC is on Lavender Hill SW11 5TN. Plan your route using AA Route Planner.
PARKING
BY BUS 345, 77, 87, 156 and G1 stop on Lavender Hill outside BAC. The night buses N77 and N345 also stop outside BAC. 35, 37, 39, 49, 170, 219, 239, 295, 319, 337, 344, and C3 buses either terminate at, or go through Clapham Junction. BAC is then a 5/10 minute walk up Lavender Hill on the left hand side. The night buses N19, N31, N35 and N37 also stop near Clapham Junction. See all buses from Clapham Junction.
BAC has a private road (Town Hall Road) on the right hand side of the building. Parking permits are required between the hours of 10am and 6pm. These are obtainable from Box Office and are free of charge to BAC customers although space is limited. Other side roads around BAC have residential and restricted parking between the hours of 8am and 6.30pm, Monday to Saturday.