Scratch Festival
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 -
Saturday, 4 October 2008
Battersea Arts Centre (BAC), Old Town Hall, Battersea, SW11 5TN
Theatre: , Performance Art, Cabaret, Youth
How Much:
£5.00 (Tickets)
, £0.00 (Concessions)
Scratch is the renowned and largely successful improvisational theatre workshop based at the Battersea Arts Centre.
Over the years the format has been widely copied: it takes a group of aspiring writers, dramatists and actors and pitches a few situations their way, with only the merest direction or instruction, and encourages them to create something dramatic for an audience, usually on a couple of hours turnaround. The process works because of creative energy meeting a tight deadline, and results are coherent, and fun to watch as well as take part in.
The Scratch Festival is three long weekends of free-form cabaret, comedy and drama overseen by invisible hands but mainly directed by the participants. Given the long format there'll be some dross in there, and a tendency towards vogue-ish burlesque, but it's sure to be an exciting event, even if you don't want to get involved in the performances. There's beer!
Also, concessions such as unemployed people, students and the like are invited to 'pay what you can' which here at Spoonfed is interpreted as 'nothing, thanks'.
Over the years the format has been widely copied: it takes a group of aspiring writers, dramatists and actors and pitches a few situations their way, with only the merest direction or instruction, and encourages them to create something dramatic for an audience, usually on a couple of hours turnaround. The process works because of creative energy meeting a tight deadline, and results are coherent, and fun to watch as well as take part in.
The Scratch Festival is three long weekends of free-form cabaret, comedy and drama overseen by invisible hands but mainly directed by the participants. Given the long format there'll be some dross in there, and a tendency towards vogue-ish burlesque, but it's sure to be an exciting event, even if you don't want to get involved in the performances. There's beer!
Also, concessions such as unemployed people, students and the like are invited to 'pay what you can' which here at Spoonfed is interpreted as 'nothing, thanks'.
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