1The mission

1/8th of building image: Morley Von Sternberg

Those in search of the nextRobert Lepage or Complicitewould be well to start at theBattersea Arts Centre. Outsideit may look like a stridentlytraditional Victorian municipalbuilding, but inside it isproducing some of the mostintelligently radical challengesto theatre today.

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The Masque of the Red Deathstaged across 59 rooms at BAC by Punchdrunk/BACPhoto by Stephen Dobbie

MissionTo invent the future of theatre

VisionA better future for everyone by putting creativity and invention atthe heart of everything we do

A community that explores its history and looks to its peripheryfor inspiration

A theatre where our collective imagination is a catalyst to changethe world

ValuesBetter togetherPlayful & ProvocativeLife-changing

Don John by Kneehigh Theatre in a temporary theatre in BAC’sGrand Hall 2009Photo by Phillip Vile

The values of Battersea Arts Centre’s work

• play and creativity

• imagination and storytelling

• delight and celebration

• intimacy and authenticity

• collaboration and resilience

BAC is the vital adventurouscreative well-spring of so muchthat is exciting about thetheatre. Quite apart from itsexcellence as a venue and itshospitable flexibility, it has inrecent years provided a wholegeneration of theatre makerswithout whom moreestablished venues like theNational would quickly atrophy.

Nick Hytner, Artistic Director, National Theatre