bac christmas cook up 2012
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BAC Christmas Cook Up 2012TRANSCRIPT
20 Nov - 19 Jan
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. 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.
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 of BAC’s home, Batter-sea’s former Town Hall. Tuck In productions provide you with a feast of new work and experiences to enjoy together.
Bursting out of the walls of BAC, our co-productions developed in partnership with artists are now starting to be presented across London, nationally and internation-ally, providing you with a chance to see the future of theatre in sites and venues across the UK and beyond.
COOK UP
TUCK IN
TAKE OUT
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What happens at BAC
INTRO FROM OUR ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
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Talk to us
From pumpkins to puppets, from large shows to small scratches, midnight feasts and late night music, there’s something for everyone in this year’s Christmas Cook Up. To kick us off in November, Forced Entertainment return to the Grand Hall for two weeks with The Coming Storm. On 23rd November, Neon Friday will celebrate the breadth and diversity of Artistic Director Tim Etchells’ work – come down to BAC and see film installations, a selec-tion of Tim’s neon art pieces around the building, catch his production of Sight is the Sense That Dying People Tend to Lose First, be part of the launch of his new book, Vacuum Days, and enjoy unusual cocktails devised by the man himself. Kneehigh dance BAC into December with Midnight’s Pumpkin, a glorious festive show for adults and children and the perfect way to bring friends and family together for Christmas and New Year. Join us at the ball, have supper here, and click through the brochure to discover what else you can do and see during your visit. There will be lots happening every night, from Little Bulb Theatre pre-show scratch performances, shows we loved at Edinburgh this year, including Josie Long’s Romance and Adventure, through to the Latest BAC Homegrown Pro-duction, christmassy food and late night entertainment in our café bar. If you would like to hold your Christmas party here, perhaps even around a performance, do get in touch with Freddie on 020 7326 8237 or [email protected] to find out more – we would love to host you. We usher in the new year with an epic puppet tale, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings from Little Angel Theatre in association with Kneehigh, which runs until 19th January. It is beautiful. Over the last 12 months or so, regular visitors will have noticed changes and improvements to our building. Our plans to restore and renew our spaces will continue in 2013, and we look forward to sharing these developments with you, along with some of the best theatre around.
David Jubb & David MicklemJoint Artistic Directors@davidjubb @davidmicklem
Tuck In Shows for Autumn and Winter 2012THEATRE
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BAC and Bloomberg present
The Good NeighbourDiscover the hidden stories of Battersea
Dates: 13 Oct - 4 Nov (previews 13 & 14 Oct)Time: 10:30am, 2:30pm, 6:30pm Price: £8 (£5 previews)
Choose your journey and the adventure begins….
Young Adventurers Recommended for ages 6+Uncover the mystery of
George Neighbour
Intrepid Explorers Recommended for ages 13+A theatrical guided tour
by Uninvited Guests
Early Investigators Recommended for under 5sAn animated play space for children and adults
Everyone can eat together before the show and when all the adventuring is done, groups will be reunited to celebrate and swap stories.
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31 October | 8pmMORE INFO >>
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.
Explore BAC’s secret passages in search of a lost memory or take a trip outside with the strangest brass band you’ve ever heard. This is a chance to share something unique and authentic with friends and family.
Tuck In Shows for Autumn and Winter 2012
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The Coming StormForced EntertainmentDates: 20 Nov - 1 DecTime: 7:30pm (Matinee 28 Nov | 2pm)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
BOOK The Coming Storm and Sight Is The Sense on Neon Friday using the promo code ‘ForcedEnts’. Details on page 5.
THEATRE
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More Shows for Autumn and Winter 2012THEATRE
Performances, neon signs and experimental cocktails from Tim Etchells & Forced Entertainment
Battersea Arts Centre presents a double-bill of Forced Entertainment’s The Coming Storm and artistic director Tim Etchells’ Sight is the Sense That Dying People Tend to Lose First. Plus mini-readings from Etchells latest book - a print version of his caustic and scurrilous web project Vacuum Days - a building full of neons, music and some rather unusual cocktails – Toxic Loan or Eurozone Sour anyone?
BOOK The Coming Storm and Sight Is The Sense on Neon Friday using the promo code ‘ForcedEnts’
Neon Friday More Info
Date: 23 Nov Time: From 7.30pmPrice: Free
Curated by Tim Etchells
More Shows for Autumn and Winter 2012
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THEATRE
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Inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s story, this is a startling world of ruined beauty and magic reality where everyone dreams of their five minutes of fame and riches, and the extraordinary takes flight.
A Kneehigh creative team, led by Mike Shepherd, combine forces with the Little Angel’s founding family - Lyndie, Sarah and Joe Wright - to celebrate Little Angel’s 50th anniversary year with a beautiful, brave and always entertaining new show.
For anyone age 6 and over who believes that an old man might fly.
A Very Old Man With Enormous WingsLittle Angel Production in Association with Kneehigh
Dates: 3 - 19 JanTime: 7pm (2pm matinee)Price: £15, £10 concs
‘entirely entrancing’The Times
Time Out
Tuck In Show for Christmas 2012
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A R E Y O U C O M I N G T O T H E B A L LT H I S C H R I S T M A S ?
T I C K E T S F R O M £ 1 5
I NB A T T E R S E A
A R T S C E N T R E ’ SG R A N D H A L L
Group and
family deals
available
Tuck In Show for Christmas 2012
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Midnight’s PumpkinKneehigh Theatre
Dates: 08 Dec - 13 JanTime: 7.30pm (matinee 2:30pm)Price: Tickets from £15
You’re invited to join the party as renowned theatre makers Kneehigh return to Battersea Arts Centre with a tipsy, tingling and foot-stomping new Christmas Caper - so grab your dancing shoes and glass slippers and head down to the Ball.
Night is falling and preparations are well underway for a Royal Ball, but with a guest list that includes an evil step-mother, ugly sisters and Prince Charming, you are in for a night of mischievous magic all before the clock strikes 12.
Ages 6+
BAC’s Christmas shows are back with Kneehigh’s festive
family offering!
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COOK UP | TUCK IN SEASON - Week One (Tues 20 - Sat 24 Nov)THEATRE
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The Coming Storm
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.
Award winning Clout Theatre invite you to dive head first into the absurd world of the Russian poet, iconoclast and false moustache wearer Daniil Kharms. Three bouffonesque characters intent on telling ‘The Old Woman’ story let narrative escape them as comic vignettes, metaphysical ponderings and bouts of senseless violenceprovide constant distraction. Expressionist silent film meets grotesque slapstick in a world where clocks have no hands and a cucumber can kill a man.
‘An hour of sheer pleasure’ The Scotsman
How A Man Crumbled
Age recommendation 16+
Dates: 22 – 24 Nov Time: 7pm Price: £10, £8 concs
“Art is a cupboard! We are not cakes!”
Dates: 20 Nov – 1 Dec Time: 7:30pm (Matinee 28 Nov | 2pm)Price: £17, £13 concs
Clout Theatre
Forced Entertainment
“I could watch these performers for hours” The Guardian
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COOK UP | TUCK IN SEASON - Week One (Tues 20 - Sat 24 Nov)THEATRE
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Sight is the Sense that Dying People Tend to Lose First is a long free-associating monologue that tumbles from topic to topic to create a vast, failing iteration and explanation of the world. Comical in its apparent naiveté and pre-posterously encyclopaedic in scope Sight is the Sense…, performed by Gatz leading actor Jim Fletcher, explores the absurdity and horror of consciousness as it tries and fails to seize and define everything that it encounters. Created by Tim Etchells, Artistic Director of Forced Entertainment and presented with Chelsea Theatre.
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Tuesday 20 Nov7.30pm______The Coming Storm
Wednesday 21 Nov7:30pm ____The Coming Storm
Friday 23 Nov7pm________How A Man Crumbled 7:30pm ____The Coming Storm8pm________Hollie McNishFrom 7.30pm ____Neon Friday10.15pm ____Sight Is The Sense
WEEKLY PLANNER
Something we don’t talk about.
A story about bodies, breasts, bananas, war, sex and toilet cubicles. A story I am excited and nervous to tell. Part poetry-gig, part story telling, part theatre. I hope you get comfy.
SCRATCH
Thursday 22 Nov7pm________How A Man Crumbled 7:30pm ____The Coming Storm8:30pm ____Sight Is The Sense
Saturday 24 Nov7pm________How A Man Crumbled 7:30pm ____The Coming Storm8pm________Hollie McNish8:30pm ____Sight Is The Sense
Something We Don’t Talk About: ScratchHollie Mcnish
Dates: 23 & 24 NovTime: 8pmPrice: Pay What You Can
Dates: 22 – 24 Nov8.30pm & 10.15pm
Price: £10, £8 concs
Neon Friday Curated by
Tim Etchells
More Info
Dates: 23 Nov Time: From
7.30pmPrice: Free
Battersea Arts Centre presents a double bill of Forced Entertainment’s The Coming Storm and artistic directorTim Etchells’ Sight is the Sense that Dying People Tend to Lose First. Plus mini-readings from Etchells’ latest book - a print version of his caustic and scurril-ous web project Vacuum Days - a building full of neons, music and some rather unusual cocktails – Toxic Loan or Eurozone Sour any-one?BOOK The Coming Storm and Sight Is The Sense on Neon Friday using the promo code ‘ForcedEnts’
Sight Is The Sense That Dying People Tend
To Lose First Tim Etchells
FINANCIAL TIMES
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Week Two (Mon 26 Nov - Sat 1 Dec)THEATRE
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Modelling Play: ScratchBoho Interactive with Coney and Applespiel
Date: 29 & 30 Nov Time: 8.30pm
Price: Pay What You Can
Australian science-theatre ensemble Boho has joined forces with agency of play Coney to create a new interactive work based on the science of climate and social modelling.
Modelling Play invites the audience to take control of a complex system - a tropical island, a city block, a ski resort - as it faces a serious crisis. Combining the epic scope of tabletop boardgames with interactive performance and storytelling, Modelling Play asks why some systems collapse and others bounce back, why some communities hold together despite adversity while others turn on themselves, and how cooperation can emerge from the most unlikely places.
The Coming StormForced Entertainment
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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.
Dates: 20 Nov – 1 Dec Time: 7:30pm | (Matinee 2pm 28 Nov)Price: £17, £13 concsAge recommendation 16+
Week Two (Mon 26 Nov - Sat 1 Dec)
Wednesday 28 Nov 2pm__________The Coming Storm7.30pm_______ The Coming Storm
Thursday 29 Nov7.30pm________The Coming Storm8.30pm________Modelling Play: Scratch
WEEKLY PLANNER
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Saturday 1 Dec 7.30pm________ The Coming Storm
Tuesday 27 Nov7.30pm_______The Coming Storm
CAFE/BAR
Friday 30 Nov 7.30pm________The Coming Storm8.30pm________Modelling Play: Scratch
Eat | Drink | Meet… everything you need for a perfect winter night is wrapped up inside the BAC Café Bar.
LUNCH | DINNER | COFFEE CAKES
CHRISTMAS AT BAC
Throughout Christmas Cook Up season the cafe bar will be serving a delicious mix of Christmas drinks and cocktails in addition to our nor-mal range of drinks.Come and sample some delicious homemade winter warmer dishes in our pop-up kitchen.
Also on offer: steaming hot homity pie, juicy Cornish pasties, homemade Christmas sausage rolls, giant slices of homemade cake, BAC’s famous choco-late brownies and much, much more. Come along hungry!
Week Three (Mon 3 - Sat 8 Dec)
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Reclaim The Heavens! Cities In The Sky! Concrete Solutions!Crank and Let Slip bring you their highly acclaimed show, a darkly comic prowl into the legacy of Britain’s tower blocks. Through the story of two ide-alistic architects, the question is clear: Who was re-ally responsible? “A terrifically directed piece that stylishly evokes the wonders and horrors of modern architecture... the tragedy of hope versus reality.” - The Stage.
BAC Freshly Made Festival
Dates: 3 - 8 DecTime: various More Info
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Midnight’s PumpkinKneehigh
Dates: 8 Dec – 13 JanTime: 7.30pm (matinees 2.30pm)Price: £15 - £25
A festival of new work from up and coming artists co- headlined by Let Slip and Crank’s Machines forLiving and a new production from Homegrown, BAC’s young company. Freshly Made is hosted by Homegrown’s Young Producers team, bringing a fresh perspective on the future of theatre at BAC.
Machines For LivingA Let Slip and Crank Collaboration
Dates: 4 - 8 DecTime: 7pmPrice: £10, £8 concs
You’re invited to join the party as renowned theatre makers Kneehigh return to Battersea Arts Centre with a tipsy, tingling and foot-stomping new Christ-mas Caper - so grab your dancing shoes and glass slippers and head down to the Ball.For ages 6+
Week Three (Mon 3 - Sat 8 Dec)
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WEEKLY PLANNER
The Many Apologies of Pecos Bill: Scratch
Greg Wohead
Dates: 6 – 8 DecTime: 9pm
Price: Pay What You Can
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SCRATCH
Wednesday 5 Dec 7pm___________ Machines For Living
Thursday 6 Dec7pm___________Machines For Living 9pm___________Many Apologies of Pecos Bill
Saturday 8 Dec2.30pm________Midnight’s Pumpkin (Matinee)7pm___________Machines For Living 7.30pm________ Midnight’s Pumpkin 9pm___________Many Apologies of Pecos Bill
Tuesday 4 Dec7pm___________Machines For Living
Friday 7 Dec7pm___________Machines For Living9pm___________Many Apologies of Pecos Bill
This is a true story about a Texan falling in love with a woman who rode on the back of a giant catfish. The Many Apologies of Pecos Bill is an investigation of tall tales, an evocation of big skies and an attempt to reach backwards across an ocean. Using true storytelling, live music and a pico projector, Greg will try to find his way back to Texas.
MIDNIGHT FEAST
Midnight Feasts
Christmas is coming and we are ready to feast! We have 4 special nights planned for us to get into our pyjamas, sneak to the kitchen cupboard and stuff our faces. Little Bulb will be supplying the music: hot jazz with a cool frontman - expect 1930s gypsy jazz with a twist.The Midnight Feasts will begin straight after Kneehigh’s Midnight’s Pumpkin at 10pm and will continue until late. They will be filled with plenty of chocolate and dancing to work it off. Let’s stay up late, jump on the bed and eat too much.
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Hot Club De Bulb (Little Bulb Gig)
Dates: 14 - 15 & 22 – 23 Dec Time: 10pmPrice: Free
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Week Four (Mon 10 – Sat 15 Dec)
THEATRE
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“Northern Soul is a bit about northern soul, it’s also a bit about pigeons, but mainly it’s about me – Victoria Melody”
Directed by international phenomenon and star of La Clique Ursula Martinez. Northern Soul is a hilarious one-woman show about Victoria’s attempts at joining in.
Northern SoulVictoria Melody
Dates: 14 & 15 Dec Time: 8pmPrice: £10, £8 concs
Red, Like Our Room Used To Feel is an intimate poetry performance from Ryan Van Winkle. It is an audio voyage featuring melodies from Ragland. It is a red room to lay down in. An art installation with paintings, photographs and ephemera from a host of artists. It is joy, memory and loss condensed into fifteen minutes. A cup of tea, a snifter of port and a space to listen.
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Red, Like Our Room Used To FeelRyan van Winkle
One on One Performance
Dates: 12 – 15 & 18 – 22 Dec Times: Between 6.20pm – 9.40pmPrice: £5, £3 concs
“It’s charming, it’s inspirational...” The List Time Out
Week Four (Mon 10 – Sat 15 Dec)
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GIGS
Monday 10 Dec7.30pm_____Midnight’s Pumpkin
Wednesday 12 DecFrom 6.20pm__Red, Like Our Room7.30pm____ Midnight’s Pumpkin
Tuesday 11 Dec7.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin
WEEKLY PLANNER
Thursday 13 DecFrom 6.20pm__Red, Like Our Room7.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin
Friday 14 DecFrom 6.20pm__Red, Like Our Room7.30pm____ Midnight’s Pumpkin 8pm_______Northern Soul10:15pm ___Midnight Feast
Saturday 15 Dec2.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin (Matinee)From 6.20pm__Red, Like Our Room7.30pm_____Midnight’s Pumpkin8pm_______ Northern Soul10:15pm ___Midnight Feast
THEATRE
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Midnight’s PumpkinKneehigh
Dates: 8 Dec – 13 JanTime: 7.30pm
(matinees 2.30pm)
Price: £15 - £25
You’re invited to join the party as renowned theatre makers Kneehigh return to Battersea Arts Centre with a tipsy, tingling and foot-stomping new Christmas Caper - so grab your dancing shoes and glass slippers and head down to the Ball.
For ages 6+
Midnight Feasts
Christmas is coming and we are ready to feast! We have 4 special nights planned for us to get into our pyjamas, sneak to the kitchen cupboard and stuff our faces. Little Bulb will be supplying the music: hot jazz with a cool frontman - expect 1930s gypsy jazz with a twist.The Midnight Feasts will begin straight after Kneehigh’s Midnight’s Pumpkin at 10pm and will continue until late. They will be filled with plenty of chocolate and dancing to work it off. Let’s stay up late, jump on the bed and eat too much.
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Hot Club De Bulb (Little Bulb Gig)Dates: 14 - 15 & 22 – 23 Dec Time: 10pmPrice: Free
Week Five (Mon 17 - Sat 22 Dec)THEATRE
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Midnight’s PumpkinKneehigh Dates: 8 Dec – 13 JanTime: 7.30pm (matinees 2.30pm)Price: £15 - £25
Josie Long is back on tour with her sixth solo show, Romance and Adventure. There’s a lot about high-end adventure pursuits, there’s a lot of her doing a 1920’s voice and there’s a bit where she pretends to be some kind of posh godzilla on the rampage for some reason.
Red Like Our Room Used To Feel is an intimate poetry performance from Ryan Van Winkle. It is an audio voyage featuring melodies from Ragland. It is a red room to lay down in. An art installation with paintings , photographs and ephemera from a host of artists. It is joy, memory and loss condensed into fifteen minutes.
Romance and AdventureJosie LongDates: 19 – 21 DecTime: 7pmPrice: £12, £10 concs
Red, Like Our Room Used To FeelRyan Van WinkleOne on One Performance
Dates: 12 – 15 & 18 – 22 Dec Times: Between 6.20pm – 9.40pmPrice: £5, £3 concs
You’re invited to join the party as renowned theatre makers Kneehigh return to Battersea Arts Cen-tre with a tipsy, tingling and foot-stomping new Christmas Caper - so grab your dancing shoes and glass slippers and head down to the Ball.
For ages 6+
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Week Five (Mon 17 - Sat 22 Dec)SCRATCH
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Monday 17 Dec7:30pm _____Midnight’s Pumpkin
Tuesday 18 Dec6.20pm_____Red, Like Our Room7:30pm _____Midnight’s Pumpkin
Wednesday 19 DecFrom 6.20pm__Red, Like Our Room7pm________Romance and Adventure7:30pm ____ Midnight’s Pumpkin 8.45pm ___Standby For Tape Back-Up
WEEKLY PLANNER
An intimate celebration of contrasting cultures, the joy of correspondence and of a single, improbable childhood moment that gave seed to
an unlikely friendship..
MIDNIGHT FEAST
Orpheus: Scratch
Dates: 20 – 22 Dec | 7.15pm
Price: Pay What You Can
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Little Bulb continue to explore their fusion of Orpheus in the Underworld with the 1930’s Parisian Gypsy Jazz scene. Expect hot club music, cheeky theatrics and a certain mustachioed guitarist.
Living Things: Scratch
Dates: 20 – 22 Dec | 8pm
Price: Pay What You Can
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An intimate, immersive experience: step into a shrine of ordinary objects, try on Grandma’s coat and explore the mystery and magic Death through Anna’s unique stories and songs.
Standby For Tape Back-Up: Scratch
Dates: 19 -21 Dec| 8.45pm
Price: Pay What You Can
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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.
Thursday 20 DecFrom 6.20pm__Red, Like Our Room7pm_______Romance and Adventure7.15pm_____Orpheus7:30pm ____Midnight’s Pumpkin 8pm_______Living Things8.45pm ___Standby For Tape Back-Up
Friday 21 DecFrom 6.20pm__Red, Like Our Room7.15pm____Orpheus7:30pm ___Midnight’s Pumpkin 8pm______ Living Things8.45pm ___Standby For Tape Back-Up9pm____My Name is Rifnur
My Name is Rifnur: Scratch Mabel Jones
Saturday 22 Dec2.30pm___ Midnight’s Pumpkin (Matinee)From 6.20pm__Red, Like Our Room7.15pm____ Orpheus: Scratch7:30pm ___ Midnight’s Pumpkin 8pm_______Living Things9pm____My Name is Rifnur: Scratch10pm ___Midnight Feast
Sunday 23 Dec2.30pm___ Midnight’s Pumpkin (Matinee)7:30pm ___Midnight’s Pumpkin 10pm ___Midnight Feast
Little Bulb
Anna Beecher
Dates: 21 – 22 Dec | 9pm
Price: Pay What You Can
Ross Sutherland
Midnight Feasts continue, please see page 16 for more info.
Dates: 14 - 15 & 22 – 23 Dec | 10pmPrice: Free
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EVENTS
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Host your Christmas Party at BAC
Christmas Parties At BAC available 10th - 23rd DecemberWith its beautiful listed rooms and high quality catering and events packages, Battersea Arts Centre is the perfect place to hold a Christmas event to remember for years to come.
Add some extra sparkle to your Christmas Party Package with a trip to see award-winning theatre makers Kneehigh in their special Christmas show Midnight’s Pumpkin at BAC after your event. (see opposite page for details)
Christmas Party Packages with BAC Catering
Christmas Party Package No.1 - £42.50+VAT p/h Inc. room hireCanape Reception with a choice of 4 canapesGlass of Prosecco or homemade mulled wine on arrivalBasic Room Package - Lighting, Sound, Staffing
Christmas Party Package No.2 - £55+VAT p/h inc room hireCold Christmas Buffet finished with warm mince pies and brandy butterGlass of Prosecco or homemade mulled wine on arrivalBasic Room Packages - Lighting, Sound, Staffing
Christmas Party Package No.3 - £80+VAT p/h inc room hireChristmas Banquet - three course meal with all the trimmingsGlass of Prosecco or homemade mulled wine on arrivalBasic Room Packages - Lighting, Sound, Staffing
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You’re invited to join the party as renowned theatre makers Kneehigh return to Battersea Arts Centre with a tipsy, tingling and foot-stomping new Christmas Caper - so grab your dancing shoes and glass slippers and head down to the Ball.
For ages 6+
Week Six (Weds 26 - Sun 30 Dec)
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THEATRE
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Host your Christmas Party at BACWEEKLY PLANNER
Midnight’s PumpkinKneehigh
Dates: 8 Dec – 13 JanTime: 7.30pm (Matinees 2.30pm)Price: £25 (£20 concs) | Balcony tickets £15 ALL CHILDREN’S tickets £15
Wednesday 26 Dec 7.30pm___ Midnight’s Pumpkin
Friday 28 Dec7.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin
Saturday 29 Dec2.30pm___ Midnight’s Pumpkin (Matinee) 7.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin
Sunday 30 Dec2.30pm___ Midnight’s Pumpkin (Matinee) 7.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin
Thursday 27 Dec2.30pm___ Midnight’s Pumpkin (Matinee) 7.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin
Week Seven (Mon 31 Dec - Sun 6 Jan)
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THEATRE
Dates: 3 - 19 JanTime: 7pm (2pm matinees)Price: £15, £10 concs
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Inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s story, this is a startling world of ruined beauty and magic reality where everyone dreams of their five minutes of fame and riches, and the extraordinary takes flight.
In 2011, a Kneehigh creative team, led by Mike Shepherd, combined forc-es with the Little Angel’s founding family - Lyndie, Sarah and Joe Wright - to celebrate Little Angel’s 50th anniversary year with a beautiful, brave and always entertaining new show.
For anyone age 6 and over who believes that an old man might fly.
Little Angel Production in Association with Kneehigh
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
‘entirely entrancing’The Times
Time Out
Week Seven (Mon 31 Dec - Sun 6 Jan)
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Tuesday 1 Jan7.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin
Monday 31 Dec2.30pm___ Midnight’s Pumpkin (Matinee)7.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin
Wednesday 2 Jan 2.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin (Matinee)7.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin
THEATRE
Dates: 3 - 19 JanTime: 7pm (2pm matinees)Price: £15, £10 concs
Midnight’s PumpkinKneehigh
Dates: 8 Dec – 13 JanTime: 7.30pm (Matinees 2.30pm)Price: £25 (£20 concs) | Balcony tickets £15 ALL CHILDREN’S tickets £15
You’re invited to join the party as renowned theatre makers Kneehigh return to Battersea Arts Centre with a tipsy, tingling and foot-stomping new Christmas Caper - so grab your dancing shoes and glass slippers and head down to the Ball.
For ages 6+
WEEKLY PLANNER
Thursday 3 Jan 7pm_______A Very OId Man 7.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin
Friday 4 Jan 7pm_______A Very OId Man 7.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin
Saturday 5 Jan2pm ______A Very OId Man 2.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin (Matinee)7pm_______A Very OId Man 7.30pm____ Midnight’s Pumpkin
Little Angel Production in Association with Kneehigh
Sunday 6 Jan2pm ______A Very OId Man2.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin (Matinee)7pm_______A Very OId Man 7.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
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Week Eight (Tues 8 Jan - Sun 13 Jan)THEATRE
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The Future ShowDeborah Pearson
Deborah Pearson, award winning performer, playwright, founder and co-director of Forest Fringe, remains unhealthily fixated on the passage of time. In a simple, honest and personal monologue told completely in future tense, she attempts to unravel the promise and anxiety of what could lie ahead.
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Inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s story this is a startling world of ruined beauty and magic reality where everyone dreams of their five minutes of fame and riches, and the extraordinary takes flight. In 2011, a Kneehigh creative team, led by Mike Shepherd, combined forces with the Little Angel’s founding family - Lyndie, Sarah and Joe Wright - to celebrate Little Angel’s 50th anniversary year with a beautiful, brave and always entertaining new show.
A Very Old Man With Enormous WingsLittle Angel Production in Association with Kneehigh
Dates: 3 - 19 JanTime: 7pmPrice: £15, £10 concs
For anyone age 6 and over who believes that an old man might fly.
Dates: 10 - 12 JanTime: 9pm Price: £10, £8 concs
‘entirely entrancing’The Times
Time Out
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Week Eight (Tues 8 Jan - Sun 13 Jan)THEATRE
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Tuesday 8 Jan7pm____ A Very OId Man 7:30pm _Midnight’s Pumpkin
Wednesday 9 Jan7pm_____A Very OId Man 7:30pm _ Midnight’s Pumpkin
Thursday 10 Jan7pm_____ A Very OId Man 7:30pm __ Midnight’s Pumpkin9pm _____The Future Show
Midnight’s PumpkinKneehigh
Dates: 8 Dec – 13 JanTime: 7.30pm (Matinees 2.30pm)Price: £25 (£20 concs) | Balcony tickets £15 ALL CHILDREN’S tickets £15
You’re invited to join the party as renowned theatre makers Kneehigh return to Battersea Arts Centre with a tipsy, tingling and foot-stomping new Christmas Caper - so grab your dancing shoes and glass slippers and head down to the Ball.
For ages 6+
Friday 11 Jan7pm______A Very OId Man 7:30pm __ Midnight’s Pumpkin9pm _____ The Future Show
Saturday 12 Jan2pm ______A Very OId Man2.30pm___ Midnight’s Pumpkin (Matinee) 7pm______ A Very OId Man 7:30pm ___Midnight’s Pumpkin9pm ______The Future Show
Sunday 13 Jan2pm ______A Very OId Man2.30pm____Midnight’s Pumpkin (Matinee)7pm_______A Very OId Man 7:30pm ____Midnight’s Pumpkin
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Week Nine (Tues 15 - Sat 20 Jan)THEATRE
SCRATCH
Another Voice I Listen To: ScratchEllen McDougall and Mark Arends
Dates: 17 - 19 Jan Time: 8pmPrice: Pay What You Can
From the Creator of Something Very Far Away
An exploration of what happens when you lose something important. An idea about how dreams could help us survive nightmares.An scientific study into how a human being might be able to fly.A story we made up. “infinitely touching” - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian on Something Very Far Away
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Inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s story this is a startling world of ruined beauty and magic reality where everyone dreams of their five minutes of fame and riches, and the extraordinary takes flight. In 2011, a Kneehigh creative team, led by Mike Shepherd, combined forces with the Little Angel’s founding family - Lyndie, Sarah and Joe Wright - to celebrate Little Angel’s 50th anniversary year with a beautiful, brave and always entertaining new show.
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Little Angel Production in Association with Kneehigh
Dates: 3 - 19 JanTime: 7pmPrice: £15, £10 concs
For anyone age 6 and over who believes that an old man might fly.
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Week Nine (Tues 15 - Sat 20 Jan)
Tuesday 15 Jan 7pm_____________A Very OId Man
Thursday 17 Jan 7pm_____________ A Very OId Man 8pm_____________Another Voice I Listen To
Friday 18 Jan 7pm_____________A Very OId Man 7.30pm__________Multimos: Sratch8pm____________ Another Voice | Listen To
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Saturday 19 Jan 2pm ____________A Very OId Man7pm_____________A Very OId Man 7.30pm__________Multimos: Sratch8pm_____________Another Voice | Listen To
Wednesday 16 Jan7pm_____________ A Very OId Man
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Multimos: ScratchBunty feat King Zacky ensemble and Metaluna
Dates: 18 & 19 Jan Time: 7.30pm Price: Pay What You Can“Her skill is remarkable and there’s excitement before each song to see what will happen - it’s infectious” Fringe Report
Over the past five years, Bunty has established herself pioneering solo vocal music and performance and her experimental loop shows - featuring bears, dancing girls, choirs, installation, projectionists and other special fx - have entertained audiences in underground venues, including disused spaces and old churches. Now collaborating closely with video artists Metaluna, Bunty brings the third scratch of her new show to BAC.
Keep a close eye and watch it grow collectthe mos’s as you go!
Mos 1 available for download atbuntycamp.bandcamp.com
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TAKE OUT
LUNCH | DINNER | COFFEE | CAKES
CHRISTMAS AT BAC
Eat | Drink | Meet… everything you need for a perfect winter night is wrapped up inside the BAC Café Bar.
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.
The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey & We Hope That You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?)
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Throughout Christmas Cook Up season the cafe bar will be serving a delicious mix of Christmas drinks and cocktails in addition to our normal range of drinks.Come and sample some delicious homemade winter warmer dishes in our pop-up kitchen.
Also on offer: steaming hot homity pie, juicy Cor-nish pasties, homemade Christmas sausage rolls, giant slices of homemade cake, BAC’s famous chocolate brownies and much, much more. Come along hungry!
ALSO AT BACMORE TO DISCOVER...
NEON FRIDAYBattersea Arts Centre presents a double bill of Forced Entertainment’s The Coming Storm and artistic direc-tor Tim Etchells’ Sight Is the Sense That Dying People Tend To Lose First. Also a launch plus mini-readings from Etchells latest book - a print version of his caustic and scurrilous web project Vacuum Days - a building full of neons, music and some rather unusual cocktails – Toxic Loan or Eurozone Sour anyone?
HOMEGROWN Whether you are interested in having fun, doing something creative or developing a career in the arts – Homegrown for 12 – 25 year olds, has something to offer you:
DROP-IN WORKSHOPS every Thurs with BAC Artists in-cluding Forced Entertainment, Made In China and Coney.
HOMEGROWN PRODUCTIONSShlomo and Kate Prince from Zoo Nation are scratching a new piece with the county’s leading young beatboxers and hip hop dancers. (Friday 2 November, 8.30pm, PWYC)Neil Callaghan and our new company of 18 – 25 year olds are cooking up Homegrown’s next large scale piece in the Council Chamber (Dec 5 – 8, 8pm, PWYC).
Like ‘BAC Homegrown’ on Facebook and follow @BACHomegrown on Twitter for the latest updates.
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MEMBERSHIPWhether you are interested in being part of an excit-ing programme of theatre and activitiesat the forefront of theatre making in the UK, or in the heritage, restoration and re-invention ofour spaces, or simply in giving to your local commu-nity, please join us at a membership levelthat suits you, make BAC your home, and help us to shape the future.
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Connect with BAC
BACLavender Hill, BatterseaLondon, SW11 5TN
CALL USBox Office: 020 7223 2223Administration Line: 020 7223 6557(for all other departments)
HIRESFor enquires and to hire any of the spaces at BAC call the Events team on 020 7326 8211 or email us [email protected]
FINDING US
BY UNDERGROUND
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
BAC is on Lavender Hill SW11 5TN. Plan your route using AA Route Planner.
PARKING
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.
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.
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