PRODUCTIONS DEVELOPED AT BAC PRESENTED ACROSS LONDON, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY

BAC Take Out is a brand new part of BAC’s approach to its mission to invent the future of theatre. As well as cooking up ideas through weekly Scratch Nights, and creating major productions across our building in Battersea, BAC will now present a broad-reaching programme called BAC Take Out. This will include some of the best shows at BAC made available to sites and venues across London, nationally and internationally. We aim to reach out to new audiences with BAC’s developed work, and create collaborative partnerships with sites, organisations, venues and co-producers.

Below is a list of projects we are currently presenting as part of BAC Take Out, if you are interested in booking any of these productions please contact Katie Roberts – katier@bac.org.uk


THE GREAT ESCAPE (A BORROWER’S TALE) | KAZUKO HOHKI & ANDY COX
THEATRE | YOUNG PEOPLE
The Great Escape (A Borrower’s Tale) is an exciting, interactive adventure for young people aged 6 – 11 based on the famous book The Borrowers by Mary Norton, prove to delight and thrill young audiences. The show leads children on a fully supervised adventure on a quest for Bob the Borrower, discovering tiny clues and helping escape the evil clutches of the KBD movement (Keep Borrower’s Down).

“Your children are likely to remember it for years” The Guardian


EVERY MINUTE, ALWAYS | MELANIE WILSON & ABIGAIL CONWAY
THEATRE | FILM
every minute, always is a performance via headphones for two people that takes place in a cinema. Seated amongst other couples, the participant is guided by the voice of the narrator into a rich and sonically transporting world of cinematic perspective. Underscoring this journey for each participant, is a gradual and electrifying encompassing of their relationship to each other and to the other couples, as the worlds of cinema and theatre collide.

“Melanie Wilson and Abigail Conway’s exquisite miniature… offers a doorway to unexpected intimacy, presenting a wonderful tickle of possibilities” The Guardian


HANNAH RINGHAM’S FREE SHOW (BRING MONEY) BY GLEN NEATH
THEATRE
Hannah Ringham’s Free Show (bring money) is both a stripped-back investigation of theatrical form and a gently provocative and playful questioning of the value of art itself. Appearing on the surface to be improvised, the ‘show’ actually revolves around a tightly scripted story of a woman’s failed relationship and the birth of a daughter she couldn’t afford to bring up. The terrible stories that unfold, however, are merely part of the moral arguments Ringham employs to manipulate the audience, continually interrupting the action to negotiate a price for her performance and attempting to coerce money from her spectators.

“Intelligently anarchic and curiously touching.” Simon Stephens

ROTATING IN A ROOM OF IMAGES | LUNDAHL & SEITL
VISUAL ART | CHOREOGRAPHY | INSTALLATION 
Rotating in a Room of Images is an audio-instructed walk situated in a room shifting from light to total darkness that further shifts in shape and scale. An itinerary of tableau vivant unfolds creating an intense experience as a disembodied voice guides you through a series of enigmatic encounters. This is a great introduction to interactive work and could easily be translated.

“A dislocating, dream-like power and a painterly eye” The Guardian


THE LOVELINESS PRINCIPLE | CONEY
INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
Messages from the mysterious Rabbit lead you into a quest for something precious and remarkable, a treasure hunt with three staging posts, each with a challenge that provokes strangers to do something small and lovely to each other. For some, a secret invitation to find the headquarters of the Loveliness Principle, and hear a peculiarly true story told by Rabbit, which reflects and dissects the nature of loveliness and makes an offer that nobody has yet refused to take back into their lives.


WE HOPE THAT YOU’RE HAPPY (WHY WOULD WE LIE?) | MADE IN CHINA
THEATRE | LIVE ART
Jess and Chris claim to be lifelong friends, but they also claim that each other are liars and that they are eyewitnesses to the majority of the key world events of the last hundred years.

A flat-out unhinged very real performance about trying to relate and connect: to the person next to us and to the unknown victim of a televised tragedy. Featuring a cooler full of beer and ice cream, a preposterous repeated dance routine, two kilos of flour and a lot of ketchup.


THE ODYSSEY | THE PAPER CINEMA
THEATRE | MULTIMEDIA
A tale of one husband's long return to his home and family, after war. Overcoming obstacles both natural and super natural, on the high seas and across his own threshold.  Some say an illustrated song, a finger ballet. It’s the meeting of music, drawing, puppetry, film and theatre.

'Both sinister and enchanting... the feel of a quirky silent movie.' The Guardian 

THE CAR | BAC’S BEATBOX ACADEMY
THEATRE
Look out for a chair with a warning, take a seat, check over your shoulder…and get ready for an adrenaline filled experience with BAC’s Beatbox Academy. The Car is an exhilarating performance for one audience member at a time.

A CAT ESCAPES | CONEY
INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA | YOUNG PEOPLE
A Cat Escapes is a six-week Adventure-in-Learning, inspired by S.F Said’s Varjak Paw books, developed by Coney and BAC. The adventure begins with a mysterious package arriving in the classroom, with Varjak Paw himself asking the children to help his cousin Jasmin escape from some mysterious cat-nappers. The adventure consists of six chapters, each of which has a KS2 curriculum-based challenge at its heart. The chapters of the adventure are delivered by email, and involve personalised messages and correspondence with characters from the story. A Cat Escapes culminates in a live theatrical finale in your school, where the mysterious cat-nappers pay your class a visit…