Battersea Arts Centre unveils new season

Battersea Arts Centre has announced its 2025/26 season.

The programme runs from September 2025, and is due to open with Liberty Festival (24 to 28 September), the Mayor of London’s festival highlighting disabled artists, produced by CRIPtic Arts and hosted across Wandsworth with BAC as its hub. The festival explores the disabled experience and is embedded in the local community.

Dan Daw Creative Projects presents EXXY (2 to 10 October), a world premiere co-produced by BAC. The production follows Daw, a queer disabled artist, as he returns to the Australian outback to confront questions of identity and belonging. The show is co-commissioned by multiple national and international partners and tours to Tramway, Leeds Playhouse, and the Attenborough Centre after its BAC run.

Radio Live: A New Generation (11 to 12 October) brings together stories from Bosnia, Rwanda, Ukraine and Gaza in a new edition of the long-running French project by Aurélie Charon and Amélie Bonnin. The work combines theatre, live drawing, and testimony to explore the impact of conflict on young people.

BAC and the Place will co-present the UK premiere of Rinse (14 October at the Place), created by dance artist Amrita Hepi and theatre-maker Mish Grigor. The performance examines the passing of time and the allure of the past through an improvised solo.

Portuguese artist Tiago Rodrigues brings his long-touring solo piece By Heart to BAC (14 to 15 October). The work sees ten audience members memorise a Shakespeare sonnet onstage, with stories woven around the act of learning, memory, and family. The production continues to Brighton following its London dates.

Belgian company Ontroerend Goed return with Handle with Care (12 to 14 November), a performance without actors that places the structure of the piece in the hands of the audience. The show features a single box and written instructions to guide participants through a live, unrepeated experience.

In December, BAC and Wild Rumpus co-produce A Merry Misrule (29 November to 24 December), a new festive piece for families. Further details will be released in due course.

Manchester-based collective Quarantine closes the season with A Public Address (2 to 14 March). The group will take over BAC for two weeks, working with local residents and groups to create a public programme exploring questions of power, access and voice in public space. The project is co-produced by BAC and is part of Wandsworth’s London Borough of Culture programme.