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Dateline: 15th September, 2005
BAC OctoberFest 2005 is poised, ready to throw itself into the fray, ready to battle for and against the highs and lows of theatre and ready to tackle the question ‘is theatre any good?’. From 29th September to 23rd October OctoberFest will deliver an aggressive and energetic exploration of theatre as we know it and, maybe, loath it. Not content with the opinions of the chin-stroking, in-joke gafawing theatre cliques, BAC’s Artistic Director David Jubb is encouraging anyone and everyone to give their view on where theatre is at, right now: "So often you see big groups of young people who've been taken to the theatre and they're all texting each other or falling asleep in the show. Instead of asking 'what's wrong with them?' I wanted to ask 'what's wrong with theatre?'. During OctoberFest we invite the audience to join that debate." OctoberFest opens with BLINK – one evening, 15 pieces of theatre, each no more than five minutes long – urging those bored by lengthy single, double or triple bills to question whether five ferocious minutes can become theatre, and good theatre at that. BLINK is just one of several investigative strands in OctoberFest that provide different ways for people to get involved in the ‘is theatre any good’ debate. Out to Play puts site specific work out across Battersea. Artists including a smith, Jonathan Stone and Breathe take their work outside, meaning audiences do not even have to enter a theatre space to encounter and engage with theatre. There will also be extreme amounts of activity within BAC’s four walls. A strand of what Jubb calls Great Theatre puts BAC’s tastes on the line, showcasing theatre it believes to be brilliant, with Ridiculusmus’s Yes, Yes, Yes, NIE’s Trilogy and Lost Ones by Vanishing Point. Scratch, the theatre experience where you get the chance to tell artists what they should do next, will be popping up throughout OctoberFest with new ideas-in-the-making from Kazuko Hohki, Will Adamsdale and Julian Fox. And Edinburgh phenomenon Tim Crouch invites younger audiences to get in on the debate with I, Banquo, a bloody re-telling of Macbeth as seen through the eyes of his murdered best friend. OctoberFest closes with BAC’s TRASHY MULTI-ART-FORM BINGO BLOW-OUT – a whole evening of theatrical shenanigans – encouraging audiences to vote with their feet, walking freely in and out of any space at BAC, and staying as long, or as little as they like. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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