A Public Address
A BAC and Quarantine Co-Production
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Dates: Events run from 16 Feb – 14 Mar 2026
Tickets: Ranging from FREE to Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £20)*
*all orders subject to a transaction fee of £2
Events take place in person in our building or in locations local to Battersea Arts Centre
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.
Part of A Public Address
16 Feb - 13 Mar
No Such Thing
Quarantine
When was the last time you had a conversation with a stranger? We buy you lunch in exchange for a short conversation.
6 - 14 Mar
The People Of Lavender Hill
Quarantine
Hear from the people behind the counter in this audio walk, composed for and from Lavender Hill.
6 - 8 Mar
Why I Am and Why I Am Not
Quarantine
A weekend-long intervention starting with speeches from the balcony of our building – formerly Battersea Town Hall.
14 Mar
12 Last Songs
Quarantine
Part live exhibition, part epic performance made for and with the people of London.
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 is listed in the access section of each individual event.
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