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Dateline: 8th December, 2005
BAC, says the press release, "bursts into the New Year" with a mix of the personal and the political, addressing issues of major importance through personal testimony. Featuring drama, puppetry, comedy, and a nice bit of politically incorrect musical theatre, this season provides a platform for the individual voice. Yesterday Was A Weird Day (7 – 26 February) documents the experiences of Londoners in the aftermath of the July bombings. Redeveloping their Edinburgh show, young company Look Left Look Right present a powerful piece of verbatim theatre. Video and audio material is used alongside word for word re-enactments of interviews conducted with survivors, members of the emergency services, transport workers, the London Muslim community, prominent media figures and politicians, including one of the last ever interviews with Robin Cook. Audiences will also have the opportunity to feed into the work by sharing their thoughts and experiences. All proceeds go to the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund. Something Dark (21 February – 13 March) is a highly personal account of the search for identity, by celebrated poet Lemn Sissay. Given up for adoption by his Ethiopian mother, Lemn was given the name Norman Greenwood and fostered by a white family until the age of eight, when he was thrown back into the care system for the next nine years. This is the compelling true story of Lemn’s turbulent early years and his entire adult life spent searching for his mother and the truth about his father. Mat Fraser turns personal experience into musical comedy, with Thalidomide!! A Musical (31 January – 12 February). Set against the1960s drug scandal of the morning sickness pill thalidomide, this small but punchy performance features show tunes, song and dance routines, and monster-baby Tangos. Following the show for two nights only is Mat Fraser’s Sex Variety Cabaret (4 & 11 February), hosted by the man himself. Brace yourself for a gala of unrivalled variety, wit, nipple tassels, buttock wobbling, mime and punishment and melodies from around the world. In partnership with the 2006 London International Mime Festival (LIMF), BAC is proud to present a series of exciting visual theatre performances, including Low Life by puppet masters Blind Summit (17 January - 5 February). A hit in Edinburgh, Low Life was developed at BAC through the Scratch process. Blind Summit recently collaborated with Anthony Minghella in his production of Madame Butterfly at ENO. Craftsman and artist Stephen Mottram presents Animata: three dynamic, modern and edgy visual puppet spectacles for adult audiences. Puppetry is combined with electro-acoustic music in his shows The Seed Carriers (24 - 26 January), The Seas of Organillo (27 - 28 January ) and In Suspension (29 January). Also part of LIMF, Korean company Theatre Momitz will visit BAC with Empty Hands (27 - 29 January), celebrating Korean ritual ceremonies and shamanism. Badac Theatre Company will present two pieces during the January February season. Ashes to Ashes (7 – 9 February) follows the day to day existence of two inmates in the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz/Birkenau. Their second piece, Whore (11 - 12 February), is a hard-hitting look at the lives of women who work as prostitutes. Among ten Scratch performances in the January and February season, Wendy Houstoun who has previously collaborated with DV8 and Forced Entertainment will be working with composer John Avery on a new solo piece: Desert Island Dances (16 - 17 February). Times vary. Check with the venue for details. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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