Battersea Arts Centre will be presenting its third Cook Up season taking place six nights a week from February 2nd to March 31st 2012. The festival includes BAC co-productions, touring presentations, new Scratch ideas, debates, tours, comedy and music, with an emphasis on interaction between the audience and performers as refreshments will be shared together after each performance.

The flagship show of the festival is BAC and The Paper Cinema’s intimate, silent film-influenced take on Homer’s epic The Odyssey, involving hand-drawn marionettes projected onto a screen and accompanied by an inventive new score. The Paper Cinema previously staged the Total Theatre Award-nominated Night Flyer & King Pest at BAC in 2008.

Made In China (Exeunt writer Honour Bayes selected their show Stationary Excess as one of her highlights of 2011) present a new show We Hope That You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?) about consumerism in a hyperactive society involving beer, dance moves and a sincere desire to make the audience happy – or so they claim.  Caroline Horton shares her grandparents’ story You’re Not Like The Other Girls, Chrissy and Bad Physics present their multi-sensory production of Louis de Bernières only play Saturday Morning at the Centre of the World, which the audience can experience blindfolded if they so wish.

Scratch performances include Little Bulb’s Orpheus, influenced by 1930s Gypsy jazz, Subject_to_Change’s Cupid and new writing by Melanie Wilson and Gemma Brockis. These brand new works come with the chance for the audience to offer their creative input.

BAC will be presenting four Cook Up seasons throughout 2012, along with BABEL, co-produced with WildWorks as part of World Stages London, and details of six new projects will be announced at the opening of Spring Cook Up.

For further information and full listings, please visit BAC’s website.