Press

This page contains all of the latest press releases for BAC's shows and activities. With any press enquiries, or to be added to our press release mailing list, please don't hesitate to get in touch with Amber Massie-Blomfield amber@mobiusindustries.com or call her on 020 7269 9929.

Plans progress for BAC’s Old Town Hall preservation

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has given the green light to BAC to work up plans to preserve and restore its iconic old Town Hall home to re-imagine the building as an arts hub for the twenty first century as they begin a new 125 year lease on the premises. Development funding of £171,300 was awarded to help progress their plans.

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One-on-one theatre describes an increasingly popular genre of work that takes place between one artist and one audience member at a time. Often the work questions and transgresses the boundaries between audience and performer in the most personal and intimate way, leading to truly unique experiences that invite us to question the ways in which we interact with others. For the first time ever BAC brings together seminal works from around the world with new commissions from leading artists in the field: performances from the tender and heartfelt to the downright scary.

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Ten years ago, BAC changed the face of British Theatre with its first ever Scratch nights: a selection of unfinished work shared with an audience in order to gain feedback as it developed. Since then, some of the country’s most exciting new theatre has emerged through the process: from Jerry Springer: The Opera to 1927’s Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and Nic Green’s Trilogy. This May, in collaboration with Arts Admin, BAC offers a stellar line up of established artists and emerging practitioners for a bumper programme of exciting new theatrical experiments over three long weekends.

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To the young, the old, the optimist, the pessimist, the hopeful, the sad, the angry, the activists, the tired, the bored and the inspired. For four days we, the young people of Wandsworth, are presenting the very best of BAC’s homegrown performance work as well as the most exciting work from young people across London and the UK.

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Cult Edinburgh producing outfit Forest Fringe are bringing their unique brand of theatre to BAC: and some of their favourite artists are coming with them. Audience members buy one ticket for the whole night and wander the building, discovering intimate encounters, audio tours, works-in-progress and more from some of the most innovative theatre artists in the UK.

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Inspired by the Peggy Lee song, If That’s All There Is is a case study of longing, envy, disappointment and violent urges, stamped with Inspector Sands’ trademark surreal wit and physical performance style. Multi award winning theatre company Inspector Sands bring their latest work to the theatre following a sell out run as part of the Traverse’s Edinburgh Festival programme 2009, finding a perfect home in the BAC’s The Big Story season.

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