Battersea Arts Centre announces its 2025/6 season in a celebration of extraordinary performances from across the globe.
Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) has today announced its 2025/6 season. The programme will see artists from all over the world – including France, Portugal, Belgium, Australia, Rwanda and the UK – come together on Lavender Hill this autumn, in a celebration of extraordinary performance and radical, socially conscious new work from across the globe. Including six UK and World Premieres and two pieces of work that are part of this year’s London Borough of Culture, the season ranges from the hyper-local with Manchester collective Quarantine’s two-week takeover of the venue to Radio Live’s on stage interviews with young people from conflict zones, connecting wider global narratives.
Battersea Arts Centre invites audiences and artists alike to come together to engage in conversations around some of the pressing issues of our time, with many of the productions in this season having an active role for the audience to play on stage, exploring what it means to come together collectively both as an audience and as a community. Many of the shows in the 2025/6 season put dialogue right at the heart of theatre making, in a fitting tribute to the building’s radical municipal history as Battersea Town Hall.
- Liberty Festival, the Mayor of London’s flagship festival platforming work by some of the most exciting disabled artists opens the season as part of Wandsworth’s tenure as London Borough of Culture (Festival runs 24-28 September visiting BAC 25 - 28 September).
- The World Premiere of EXXY by Dan Daw Creative Projects, co-produced with BAC Dan, a queer, crippled artist transports the audience to the Australian outback to talk about his imposter syndrome (2-10 October).
- Part theatre show and part journalistic investigation, Radio Live: A New Generation puts stories of young people from conflict zones in Bosnia, Rwanda, Ukraine and Gaza centre stage (11-12 October).
- BAC and The Place co-present Rinse by Bundjalung and Ngapuhi dance artist Amrita Hepi and theatre-maker Mish Grigor (14 October at The Place).
- Director of the Festival d’Avignon, Tiago Rodrigues invites 10 people to the stage to memorise a Shakespeare sonnet in the UK Premiere of By Heart, a moving tribute to his soon-to-be blind grandmother and a true manifesto for the power of poetry (14-15 October).
- Belgian theatre company Ontroerend Goed present a bare stage and a box in Handle with Care where theatre is stripped down to its essence. A unique and unrepeatable experience (12-14 November).
- Co-produced by BAC and Wild Rumpus, A Merry Misrule offers a new festive adventure for families in December 2025. (29 November - 24 December)
- Award-winning theatre collective Quarantine take over BAC for two weeks for the World Premiere of A Public Address, collaborating with a huge range of people across Lavender Hill and the wider borough as part of Wandsworth's London Borough of Culture year. (2-14 March).
Battersea Arts Centre is a Home for the Extraordinary, harnessing the incredible power of art, creativity and collective imagination to create a better future for everyone.