Cook Up is the creative heart of BAC - everything we do to invent the future of theatre starts here. From our vibrant Scratch programme to music gigs, parties and the best new shows we have seen out and about - this is the place to see the next big thing in theatre at its moment of creation.

Up to three times a year we will develop Scratch ideas in to large-scale productions that take over the whole building. These are seen by thousands of people, each revealing and transforming another part of our space.

Bursting out of the walls of BAC, we will develop Scratch ideas into productions that will 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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What happens at BAC

INTRO FROM OUR ARTISTIC DIRECTORS

Scratch is all about feedback, to make the work better we need your help! Follow us on Facebook and Twitter on @battersea_arts to keep up to date with what is happening at BAC, and to let us know what you think.

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We’re just back from Edinburgh where our partnership with Summerhall launched BAC Take Out. Artists, audiences and critics loved it. The Scotsman described ‘Britain’s hottest theatre…at the Fringe’s hottest venue’.

Back in Battersea this autumn we’re cooking up the future of theatre in our beautiful Town Hall home. Every week artists can be found in spaces across our building developing new ideas for theatre. BAC Scratch is at the heart of our Cook Up Season, alongside food, drink, Homegrown (our young peoples theatre) and the best of work we have seen elsewhere. Come and join us.

David Jubb and David Micklem

Weekend One (15 – 17 Sept)

Hannah Ringham’s Free Show (Bring Money) by Glen Neath Hannah Ringham and Glen NeathDirected by John Hardwick

Date: 15 - 16 SeptTime: 7pmPrice: FREE ticketed (online and telephone booking available)

Meet a woman whose life has gone wrong. Widowed and with child, widowed again, divorced, desperate. How much does it cost to go to the theatre these days?

At the heart of this show lies the question of it’s worth.

‘Yes, she was worth it.’ **** Guardian

Legs 11 Tom Marshman

Date: 15 - 17 SeptTime: 8pmPrice: Pay What You Can

Tom Marshman is mingling with fashionistas, but he can’t stop talking about his varicose veins.

In this intimate performance, Tom conveys a story of hospital visits, uncharted journeys, broken connections and rejuvenation.

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Weekend One (15 – 17 Sept)

Thursday 15 Sept

7pm____________Hannah Ringhams Free Show (Bring Money) by Glen Neath8pm____________Legs 119pm__________Free band in Café Bar

Friday 16 Sept

7pm____________Hannah Ringhams Free Show (Bring Money) by Glen Neath8pm____________Legs 119pm__________Free band in Café Bar

Saturday 17 Sept

8pm____________Legs 11

Blue Skies Instillation Rhiannon Armstrong

Dates: 15 Sept - 29 Oct

The Blues Skies Booths are polling booths that have been transformed in the night by utopian guerilla artists.

Too often our votes do not count. We end up choosing between the lesser of two evils, because we are told that what we want is not possible. Well it should be. It is. Imag-ine your ideal performance: what would it be like? Does it take place on the moon? Is one of the performers your dead hamster Pipsqueak? Do you come out alive?

Cast your vote, and it will not disappear. I hereby declare that as soon as you cast your vote, I am committed to making your ideal performance happen in reality.

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Many performances are under an hour, so you can pack in multiple shows while at BAC.

Weekend Two (22 – 24 Sept)SCRATCH PERFORMANCES

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Atomkraft | Greg McLarenDates: 22 Sept | Time: 9pmPrice: Pay What You Can

Greg McLaren is exploring the ‘Nuclear Issue’. What’s that then? The terror of accident? The mystery of the process? Join him for an absorbing and electrifying journey into the (known) unknown.

Made in ChinaDates: 22 - 24 Sept | Time: 8:30pmPrice: Pay What You Can

Direct from Edinburgh, in an early Scratch, Made in China will be working on brand new material for a show about the impact of where we’re from and where we have been on who we are.

Push Kick | Hollie McNishDates: 22 Sept | Time: 7:30pmPrice: Pay What You Can

Push Kick, first read at the Southbank Centre’s Woman of the World Festival, charts the beauty, brilliance and bollocks involved in having a baby and attempting to become a mum!

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Lost Time | Geraldine PilgrimDates: 23 & 24 Sept | Time: 7pmPrice: FREE

Developed at the National Theatre Studio, Lost Time takes an iconic murder mystery and turns it inside out to look at loss, hope and memory.

The Ministry for Promoting Gross National Happiness | Wandering SwallowsDates: 24 Sept | Time: 8pmPrice: FREE

The idea of measuring Gross National Happiness originates in Bhutan, a Buddhist country. So, with a light touch, Wandering Swallows explore protest, distribution, and public intervention.

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Thursday 22 Sept

7:30pm__________Push Kick8:30pm__________Made in China9pm_____________Atomkraft9pm_____________Free band in Café Bar

Friday 23 Sept

7pm_____________Lost Time8:30pm__________Made in China9pm_____________Free band in Café Bar

Saturday 24 Sept

7pm_____________Lost Time8pm_____________The Ministry for Promoting Gross National Happiness8:30pm__________Made in China

Drawing Theatre: The Wild Bride in London | London Drawing in association with Kneehigh TheatreDate: 24 Sept | Time: 11am - 5pm

An exciting, one-off creative drawing workshop in conjunction with Kneehigh’s latest production, The Wild Bride. London Drawing, best known for their drawing classes at Tate Modern, the V&A and The Design Museum, will be taking over BAC for a special workshop.

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Many performances are under an hour, so you can pack in multiple shows while at BAC.

Anita’s Vintage Fashion FairDate: 25 Sept | Time: 9:30 am - 4:30pm

Explore the 4 capitals of style at Anita’s Vintage Fashion Fair. Celebrating Fashion Weeks across the globe, the fair will have dedicating areas for each city... New York, London, Milan & Paris. Transport yourself with city chic autumn vintage apparel.

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Weekend Three (29 Sept – 1 Oct)

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We Hope That You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?) | Made in China

Dates: 29 Sept - 1 Oct | Time: 8pmPrice: £10, £6 Concs

Jess and Chris are best friends. They also claim that each other are liars, that they only met last year and that they are eyewitnesses to the key world events of the last hundred years. A flat-out, unhinged and very real performance about trying to connect: to the person next to you and to the unknown victim of a televised tragedy.

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Cupid | Subject to_changeDates: 29 & 30 Sept | Time: 7pmPrice: Pay What You Can

You are invited to take part in a journey: an interactive installation that will take you through the cosmos and into each other’s hearts.

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Mess | Caroline HortonDates: 29 & 30 Sept | Time: 9pmPrice: Pay What You Can

A hilarious and moving insight into a private world of addiction, control and obsession. Josephine and Boris confront big issues and tiny ones.

Unhappy Birthday | Amy LaméDates: 30 Sept | Time: 7:30pmPrice: Pay What You Can

Welcome to Amy’s Unhappy Birthday party. A place is set for global superstar Morrissey. He’s running late. Will he bother to turn up at all?

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The Ministry for Promoting Gross National Happiness | Wandering SwallowsDates: 1 Oct | Time: 7pmPrice: FREE

See page 5 for more info.

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HUM Installation Ray Lee

Dates: 15 Sept - 29 Oct

A kinetic theatre for our Foyer by Ray Lee.

In the open area above the grand staircase a series of motors are suspended from the ceiling to a height of approximately three meters from the stairs. Activated by the presence of the audience, centrifugal force spins out three small loudspeakers that are hung from the motor. Digital sound stores are activated by the movement and emit discrete sounds, each through its own loudspeaker.

Inspired by the sound of bees and insects humming in trees, HUM creates a swirling, throbbing hum of electromagnetic sound and noise that will engage the audience, animate the foyer and encourage visitors to explore the staircase.

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Thursday 29 Sept

7pm____________Cupid7pm____________Mess8pm____________We Hope That You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?)9pm____________Free band in Café Bar

Friday 30 Sept

7pm____________Cupid7pm____________Mess7:30pm_________Unhappy Birthday8pm____________We Hope That You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?)9pm____________Free band in Café Bar

Saturday 1 Oct

7pm____________The Ministry for Promoting Gross National Happiness8pm____________We Hope That You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?)

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Many performances are under an hour, so you can pack in multiple shows while at BAC.

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Weekend Four (6 – 8 Oct)

Skittles Richard Marsh

Dates: 6 & 8 OctTime: 8pm Price: £10, £6 Concs

A story about love. (And sweets, which are more reliable).

Richard Marsh’s debut solo show Skittles is a tale of broken dreams, trans-American road trips and a seductive mistress called Sorrow.

Fusing poetry and prose, Skittles is a deeply funny and truly moving account of losing love and learning to put yourself back together again.

‘Richard Marsh’s witty, ingenious, poetically driven account… takes you to the heart of what it means to feel for another person and be left bereft.’ **** Telegraph

Funny and wise… Great writing, great performance... free Skittle. Observer

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Thursday 6 Oct

8pm____________Skittles9pm____________Free band in Café Bar

Friday 7 Oct

9pm____________Free band in Café Bar

Saturday 8 Oct

8pm____________Skittles

LOST LINE [reconnected] Installation The Campinglis Bellhall’s

Dates: 15 Sept - 29 Oct LOST LINE [reconnected] asks you to talk. Talk to people who share this building with you, talk about your loves, your loneliness and the brilliant idea you just had.It uses a technology we call the landline, you might have heard it called the house or home phone, but it was once just called a phone.

A phone connected you to a place, a build-ing, a fixed point, you called with out know-ing who would answer, you called a place and who ever answered would try and help you find out what you wanted to know. It was fun and friendly and a little bit braver than sending a text.

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Many performances are under an hour, so you can pack in multiple shows while at BAC.

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Weekend Five (13 – 15 Oct)

Freshly Scratched

Dates: 13-15 OctTime: 7pm and 9pmPrice: Pay What You Can

Freshly Scratched is back at BAC! We are giving artists who we have never worked with us before a chance to showcase their work. Come along to one of the showings at 7pm or 9pm and you will get to see six 10 minute Scratches from exciting new artists.

The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey

Dates: 13-15 OctTime: 8pmPrice: Pay What You Can

Set on the wine dark sea illuminated by the rosy fingered dawn and an angle poise – armed with only paper cuts, musical instruments and cunning fingers.

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A weekend of rough and ready flashes of inspiration, Freshly Scratched is an opportunity for artists to try out fresh theatrical ideas in front of an audience.

At the core of BAC’s Freshly Scratched, unlike other showcase-based events, is a genuine interest in exploring an idea in front of an audience, taking risks with the material presented and using audience feedback in order to help think through the next steps in developing the work.

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. This corner stone of literature founded on centuries of oral tales is re-told in our own mute and obtuse ways.

Some say an illustrated song, a finger ballet. It’s the meeting of music, drawing, puppetry, film and theatre.

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Weekend Five (13 – 15 Oct)

Thursday 13 Oct

7pm____________Freshly Scratched8pm____________The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey9pm____________Freshly Scratched9pm____________Free band in Café Bar

Friday 14 Oct

7pm____________Freshly Scratched8pm____________The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey9pm____________Freshly Scratched9pm____________Little Bulb Scratch

Saturday 15 Oct

7pm____________Freshly Scratched8pm____________The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey9pm____________Freshly Scratched

Little Bulb ScratchDate: 14 Oct | Time: 9pm

Little Bulb will be back in residence at BAC this season. On the evening of 14 Oct they will be scratching something new and exciting. We have no idea what it is yet, but their brilliant track record indicates that they will provide you with an evening of madcap musical wildness!

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Many performances are under an hour, so you can pack in multiple shows while at BAC.

The Drawing Theatre: Creative Life Drawing | London DrawingDate: 15 Oct | Time: 11am-5pm

A spectacular fusion of theatre and drawing in a creative workshop designed to inspire and excite. Combining elements of performance and movement, light and sound, explore the human figure in hidden spaces and beautiful architecture.

Weekend Six (20-22 Oct)

Best in the World Unfolding Theatre

Dates: 20-22 Oct Time: 8 pmPrice: Pay What You Can

When Annie Rigby watched darts player, Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor win his 15th World Championship, she found herself wondering, “What is it like to be best in the world at something?”

Talk Like Someone From Where You Are From | Made in China

Dates: 20 and 21 OctTime: 9pmPrice: Pay What You Can

Made in China will be working on new material for a show about the impact of where we’re from and where we have been on who we are.

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Now Unfolding Theatre are on a mission to find out.

Featuring live darts, a mission to find the best audience in the world and one man’s journey to become a gold medal version of himself, Best in the World is a funny and personal theatrical event.

They will be exploring how stories and memories can warp and overlap, and the impact of this on individual identity. The show will feature a variety of guest performers.

Made in China started work on Talk Like Someone From Where You Are From in Edinburgh and at BAC and have also beed developing the piece at the National Theatre Studio. Returning to BAC in October, they will perform some longer Scratches of what they have been cooking up.

Thursday 20 Oct

8pm____________Best in the World 9pm____________Talk Like Someone From Where You Are From9pm____________Free band in Café Bar

Friday 21 Oct

8pm____________Best in the World 9pm____________Talk Like Someone From Where You Are From9pm____________Free band in Café Bar

Saturday 22 Oct

8pm____________Best in the World

Bands in the Café BarDates: 15 Sept - 29 Oct Every Thurs & FriTime: 9pm | Price: FREE

Every Thursday and Friday night throughout the season we will have bands playing in the Café Bar. Grab a drink and enjoy some free music from exciting new artists, to satisfy a range of musical tastes.

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Many performances are under an hour, so you can pack in multiple shows while at BAC.

Food and DrinkLunch TimeOur Café Bar serves lunch from 12-3pm Monday to Saturday. Enjoy a range of salads, paninis, hot meals, jacket potatoes and cakes at very affordable prices.

EveningOur Café Bar is open ‘till late Thurday to Friday. You can enjoy your evening meal here, meet for a drink with friends or just grap a drink in between performances.

Weekend Seven (27 – 29 Oct)SCRATCH PERFORMANCES

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Kate Tempest

Date: 27-29 OctTime: 8pmPrice: Pay What You Can

Kate Tempest will be scratching work based on characters from mythology, retold through the stories of everyday, contemporary people. The work should highlight that - no matter how much our society may feel sometimes like it’s in its death throes - we are essentially the same humans we’ve always been, and have the same lessons to learn.

Talk Like Someone From Where You Are From | Made in China

Dates: 27 and 28 OctTime: 9pmPrice: Pay What You Can

Made in China will be working on new material for a show about the impact of where we’re from and where we have been on who we are.

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They will be exploring how stories and memories can warp and overlap, and the impact of this on individual identity. The show will feature a variety of guest performers.

Made in China started work on Talk Like Someone From Where You Are From in Edinburgh and at BAC and have also beed developing the piece at the National Theatre Studio. Returning to BAC in October, they will perform some longer Scratches of what they have been cooking up.

Kate will be speaking the words and collaborating with musicians to tell this story.

Kate is a prolific performance poet and rapper. She was comissioned earlier this year by Paines Plough to write her first play WASTED, which premiered at latitude festival. She is also making her mark in the UK hip-hop scene with her band SOUND OF RUM.

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nabokov Arts Club

Dates: 28 and 29 OctTime: 8pm - 2amPrice: £15 Advance, £20 on the door

The nabokov Arts Club has landed at BAC!

We’re handing over the building to the undisputed heavyweight champion of artistic happenings, to fill every space of the building for two consecutive nights of Halloween madness! An extravaganza of live theatre, music, comedy, dance and visual art wrapped up in a big fat party - the nabokov Arts Club moves to BAC after 4 years of packed, exhilarating warehouse parties in East London.

As featured in The Guardian and ’Best Nights Out 2009’ in The Independent!

Past acts include Mystery Jets, The Correspondents, Belleruche, Sound of Rum, Polarbear, Brigitte Amofah and Scroobius Pip, as well as World Premieres by Patrick Marber and Jessica Hynes.

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Thursday 27 Oct

8pm____________Kate Tempest9pm____________Talk Like Someone From Where You Are From9pm____________Free band in Café Bar

Friday 28 Oct

8pm____________Kate Tempest9pm____________Talk Like Someone From Where You Are From9pm____________Free band in Café Bar

Saturday 29 Oct

8pm____________Kate Tempest

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Connect with the

BACLavender Hill, BatterseaLondon, SW11 5TN

CALL USBox Office: 020 7223 2223Administration Line: 020 7223 6557(for all other departments)

EMAILmailbox@bac.org.uk

HIRESFor 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

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 out-side 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.