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Image: Pluto, BAC's cat
Photographer: BAC

	BAC


	Live music\|Devised theatre\|Young people’s theatre

SIZE OF COMPANY
Varies

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Joint Artistic Directors
David Jubb
David Micklem
Senior Producers
Richard Dufty
Shelley Hastings

ARTISTIC POLICY
To invent the future of theatre.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
If there is one place which has a genuine claim to be Britain's most influential theatre it is Battersea Arts Centre.
The Guardian
BAC’s consistently original, intelligent, and risk-taking approach is an extraordinary and vital force in London theatre
The Evening Standard

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Small Town Anywhere
A BAC and Coney co-production. The audience become citizens in a small town and play out a compelling story about a community under threat. It marries exciting game-design with sophisticated dramaturgy to create meaningful interactive theatre.
90 - 120 minutes, 7 on the road
Rapunzel
A BAC and Kneehigh Theatre co-production by Annie Siddons. BAC celebrated its 25th birthday with this festive collaboration with acclaimed theatre company Kneehigh. Together they tell the heart-warming tale of a fun and feisty heroine using puppetry, music and image.
120–150 mins, 10 on the road
The Masque of the Red Death
A Punchdrunk and BAC co-production. A large-scale immersive promenade performance happening across 80% of BAC’s Victorian town hall home. The show is based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe and combines extraordinary design with site-responsive choreography. 180 mins, 27 performers plus 10 in production team

WRAP-AROUND
BAC’s Participate programme provides opportunities for people of all ages to get involved in making and learning about theatre. Participate offers an exciting range of workshops for young people – at BAC through our Young People’s Theatre (12–15 years), in local schools and in other contexts. BAC’s pioneering Beatbox Academy, run with world-class beatboxer Shlomo, is a key element of BAC’s Participate programme’s outreach work. In 2009 BAC will relaunch its adult workshop programmes.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 USA: Rapunzel
2008 China: BAC-developed touring work from Uninvited Guests, Blind Summit and Inspector Sands & Stamping Ground Theatre.