The exterior of Battersea Arts Centre from across the street. A large Victorian building with arched windows and a weather vane on its roof.

A Public Address

Quarantine

Information

Full line-up of events to be announced Nov 2025.

Battersea Town Hall was once a site for radical politics, including infamous speeches and debates on religion, suffrage, social housing and art.

In March 2026, award-winning theatre collective Quarantine takeover the former Town Hall – now Battersea Arts Centre to ask: who gets heard in a place like this today?

Part of Wandsworth’s London Borough of Culture year, A Public Address brings together people across Lavender Hill, the borough and beyond, to create a programme of events from intimate encounters to grand-scale durational performance.

Drawing on Quarantine’s 27-year history of dismantling conventions and collaborating with all kinds of people, A Public Address dances around the edges of theatre and civic art to produce a fortnight-long takeover giving voice to those we live and work beside, but may not yet know.

“Quarantine is a remarkable theatre company that has created a body of beautiful, fragile and authentic work, which finds the extraordinary in the ordinary lives of real people.” Guardian

A Public Address is part of Welcome to Wandsworth, London Borough of Culture. London Borough of Culture is a Mayor of London initiative.

About

Quarantine is an award-winning ensemble of artists and producers making cross-disciplinary work that explores what it means to live right now. They are rooted in Manchester but create and tour projects around the world that are both intimate and immediate in their relationships with people and global in their reference and scope. Quarantine has an international reputation for intellectually rigorous, socially progressive and formally inventive art that questions who gets seen, whose stories are told and who stands in for whom – questions about representation lie at the heart of their work.

Access

PRE EVENT INFORMATION

This event takes place in person in various spaces around the BAC building. There is step-free access to the ground floor, and step-free access to the first floor via a lift.

More detailed access information will be available once the line-up of events has been announced.

For more general information about access at BAC please visit our access page.

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