BAC gives a platform to the fringe hits of the near future with the Scratch Festival 2010.
This May, Battersea Arts Centre will host some of the most innovative scratch performances devised by promising production companies from all over the UK. Utilising every corner and crevice of the charming building for over 30 theatre pieces, the festival will feature workshops and feedback sessions.
The Scratch Festival aims to develop works in progress by showcasing them for London audiences who will then have the opportunity to voice their opinon. With such variety on offer, we recommend catching a few shows and using their 3 for 2 offer. The offer can be spread across the festival or used for three shows in one night – that might sounds like a lot, but most of these works-in-progress are short and at £5 or £3 concessions, they're a bit of a bargain.
Highlights this year include Bristol-based production people Uninvited Guests who hope to develop their latest collaboration with sound artist Lewis Gibson. Make Better Please asks the audience about their concerns and uses stories from news in a theatrical “Meeting of Sufferings”.
Chloe Dechery and Lucy Foster present Epic, an intimate amalgamation of fictional re-enactments of 20th century events that aims to connect its audience to the bigger picture through personal stories and filmed oral histories.
Matthew Robbins' Sad Lucy: A Fish Opera makes an appearance to tell a funny little story about the sea, death and the devil through film, animation, shadow puppetry and song.
Over the first two days of the festival, Debbie Pearson presents her work in progress which explores the process of leaving places and parts of yourself you can never reclaim. Like You Were Before addresses our need to remember events a certain way through videos and pictures. Shortly after, The Paper Cinema will stage The Odyssey: The Trailer about a man's struggle to return home to his wife, told through delicate paper puppets and original live music.
The festival runs at Battersea Arts Centre from 5th to 22nd May.
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