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A young female presenting person wearing a red jumper and jeans, swings a golf club towards a giant sea wave sculpture.

Until 9 Aug

The Art of Mini Golf

A playable exhibition by RISING Melbourne

Play your way through nine adventurous mini golf holes, each designed by a leading woman artist.

18 - 21 Aug

The Rake's Progress

British Youth Opera

Stravinsky’s dark comic opera paints a world where ‘living life to the full’ comes at a cost.

A woman is stood on a theatre stage in front of a red curtain. She’s white, wearing all black and has long brown hair. A seagull is flying towards her, blocking us from seeing her face.

6 - 24 Oct

NINA

A new play by Caroline Williams
A BAC Production

Inspired by Chekhov’s The Seagull, NINA is a meta theatrical fever dream on coercion, power and the quest for creative expression.

16 Oct - 1 Nov

Room 13

Created by Immersive Octopus
An Immersive Octopus and BAC Co-Production

This brand-new experiential horror from the director of 'Peaky Blinders: The Rise' and 'Doctor Who: Time Fracture' explores the remnants left behind by the BAC fire over 10 years ago.

27 - 31 Oct

The Dark

Peut-Être Theatre

A captivating show for children aged 4+, adapted from the picture book by Lemony Snicket.

29 Oct - 1 Nov

La Dame de Pique

Gothic Opera

This operatic game of power will transport you to the dying days of the Ancien Régime in France.

Three people are sat on a red sofa on a stage, surrounded by red and pink confetti. There is one man on the left-hand side in jeans and a t-shirt, he has blonde hair in a ponytail and green paint in war-like markings across his face. The other two are women – one on the right-hand side of the sofa is wearing a green hoodie and combat boots, and the one in the centre is wearing orange joggers and is holding a cardboard box.

4 - 6 Nov

Good Sex

Dead Centre with Emilie Pine

How do you have sex on stage? How do you even have sex? Each night, two new performers try to find an answer.

A white man with piercing blue eyes is mostly in shadow, with only the right edge of his face in the light. He has blue tape all over his face, covering everything but his eyes, nostrils and mouth. He is holding some playing cards to his mouth as if he is about to eat them, his hand is in a blue latex medical glove.

7 & 14 Nov

Magic: An Illustrated History

Jim Dahl Presents

An oblique history of magic combining live vocals, illusion and puppetry.

7 - 14 Nov

UNREAL
A Festival of Magic and Performance

Curated by Tom Cassani, Augusto Corrieri and Tim Bromage

A week-long festival presented by extraordinary artists from across the UK and Europe, working at the intersection of magic and performance.

A headshot of a white woman with blonde hair and blue eyes in a black and white pinstriped suit. Her mouth is open, and lots of tongues are falling out of it.

7 Nov

A Mouthful Of Tongues

Stina Fors

'A Mouthful of Tongues' is a performance about what a body can hold, and what it cannot contain.

Two images are placed next to each other horizontally. On the left, a man with long brown hair tied up in a bun is using his hand as a puppet with two googly eyes stuck on top of his fingers. On the right, another man is sat down and dressed all in black, and is reaching over to the right with a deck of cards in his hand.

7 Nov

Black Magic and Iterations
(Double Bill)

Tom Cassani, Luis Sartori do Vale and Kalle Nio

How much do you trust your own eyes? Witness a double bill of world-class contemporary magic.

A woman with dark hair wearing a blue dress suspends herself from the floor of a dark stage with one arm, the other is raised above her and her legs are raised off the floor.

10 - 11 Nov

Lento e Violento

Valentina Cortese

Blending circus, dance, music and magical illusion, Lento e Violento invites you to explore the fantastical.

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