Spring at Battersea Arts Centre

Published: 14 January 2018
Reporter: Sandra Giorgetti

Highlights of Battersea Arts Centre's opening season for 2018 include more works in the venue's programme, Reclaiming The Classics.

The series takes a new look at old works and this spring offers:

  • Not I by Samuel Beckett—a Touretteshero and Battersea Arts Centre Production

    Part of a theatrical experience exploring neurodiversity, raising questions about who is allowed to perform what and who gets the final say. Runs 28 February to 17 March.

  • Juliet and Romeo: A Guide to Long Life and Happy Marriage from award-winning dance theatre company Lost Dog

    Juliet and Romeo are now middle-aged and struggling under the stresses and strains of supposedly being the world’s most romantic couple. Runs at Battersea Arts Centre 14 to 24 February and then at The Place from 27 February to 3 March.

  • Beowulf by Seth Kriebel, commissioned by and developed at Battersea Arts Centre

    Accompanied by an evocative soundscape, the audience explores the world of the poem, making each show unique, depending on their choices. Runs 14 to 31 March.

  • The Paper Cinema’s Macbeth

    Macbeth is told with illustration and puppetry to create a silent film before the audience’s eyes, set to a live score. A Paper Cinema and Battersea Arts Centre Production running 20 March to 4 April.

  • Frankenstein—a BAC Beatbox Academy and Battersea Arts Centre Production

    Young beatboxers, singers, poets and MCs ask who are the makers of today’s monsters in this gig-physical theatre combination marking 200 years since the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Runs 22 March to 7 April.

The season also sees the double bill of Total Theatre Award-winning PALMYRA, Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas's exploration of revenge and the politics of destruction with EUROHOUSE, a darkly comic look at the EU’s past and present from the same pair.

The Drill from Breach Theatre uses documentary film and devised theatre to look at anxieties around security and terrorism. Co-commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre, The Bike Shed Theatre, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, HOME and New Diorama Theatre, The Drill will tour the UK following its Battersea Arts Centre debut running 5 to 17 February.

Rachel Bagshaw and Chris Thorpe's Scotsman Fringe First award-winning The Shape of the Pain returns to Battersea Arts Centre. Words and an original sound score are combined to provide a dialogue about love and perception in an experiment about how we talk about pain. A Battersea Arts Centre and China Plate co-commission. Runs 20 February to 10 March.

Also in the season are Live Before You Die from Byron Vincent & Dave McGinn, Noisy Holiday, a family show from Kid Carpet & The Noisy Animals, and a programme of scratch shows by various artists.

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