#BACphoenix – Mmm Hmmm & Fiction Prove That BAC Lives On
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Less rising from the ashes, more ploughing on through, the Battersea Arts Centre has looked adversity square in the face and carried on regardless!
There’s lots of hard work ahead following BAC’s flirtation with fiery ruin, but the show must go on!
Verity Standen’s Mmm Hmmm and David Rosenberg’s Fiction have illuminated the BAC programme for all the right reasons this month – check out our reviews below.
Meanwhile, if you’re able to help out, you can donate to the BAC Phoenix Fund HERE. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]
Mmm Hmmm
★★★★★
Verity Standen in association with Tobacco Factory Theatres
A capella song theatre employing intricate vocal techniques and rich harmony.
19-21 March | 9pm | Battersea Arts Centre
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Verity Standen’s latest melange of musicality, movement and theatre is an extraordinary, exhilarating meditation on the banalities of everyday life.
From the questionable luxuries of a First Great Western train to the badgering of automated checkouts, Mmm Hmmm trains a magical, musical microscope on the humdrum, the heartbreaking, the mind-expanding and the mind-numbing aspects of quotidian 21st century living. With biscuits.
Technically awesome, toe-tappingly engaging, Mmm Hmmm is sure to leave you with a tune in your head, a smile on your face, and a sense that life, however prosaic, really is beautiful.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_separator color=”grey” align=”align_center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]
You open your eyes, you close your eyes. There is no difference. Are you asleep or awake? Is this a dream or reality? What kind of Fiction is this?
Never mind blurring the lines between dream and reality, Fiction obliterates them. Sat in complete darkness, not a glimmer of light to be seen, the voices begin. We have a guide, she’ll look after us… won’t she?
Fiction is a masterful technical accomplishment, wherein each audience member feels as if the ‘show’ is just for them. This is essentially Iso Tank theatre – an opportunity for the mind to expand and fill the dark void. The audio, narrating and lending voice to a disturbingly realistic dreamlike scenario, is the catalyst which stokes the imagination.
A theatrical experience like no other – which ends, let’s say, not with a whimper…[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]
Fiction
★★★★
By David Rosenberg and Glen Neath
Produced by Fuel
An immersive sound journey in absolute darkness, from the creators of Ring.
3-21 March | 7:30pm | Battersea Arts Centre
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