Sandpit at BAC
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Sandpit at BAC
Monday 19 October
6:30-10:30 (pick your games from 6:30; games from 7:00)
Battersea Arts Centre (just near Clapham Junction)
(map, facebook event)
FREE
The Sandpit is back in London on Monday 19 October, where we”ll be filling BAC with games, play, duels, whiteboards, ribbons, skulking, treachery, discovery and delight. We’re part of BAC’s Not For You, Not For Me, But For Us, a month-long season of work that celebrates audience creativity.
We’ll be using a stickering system, where you collect stickers for the games you want to play and they give you a guaranteed place, so that you can plan your evening when you arrive. Stickers will be available any time after 6:30, and the first games will begin at 7:00.
There’s still a few more games to go up on the schedule, but to get an idea of what will be going on, see below:
100 Things
100 things, each one seen for a moment before it disappears.
Up to 100 players. Designed by Andy Wilson.
The Gossip Game
At the heart of BAC’s NFYNFMBFU season is A Small Town Anywhere, an experience from Coney that’s been two years in the making. To celebrate its run, come along and play The Gossip Game, a piece that Coney ran at Hide&Seek in 2007, and which was one of the seeds that eventually grew into to A Small Town Anywhere. (Then grab tickets to see A Small Town Anywhere, because seriously, we have played earlier versions and it is going to be pretty great.)
25 players. Designed by Coney.
The Great British Breakfast
What could be better than eating a Full English Breakfast? Well, how about becoming part of one? Players take the role of Sausages, Eggs, Beans and other ingredients, wait to be cooked, then gather with other likeminded ingredients to make breakfast favourites and earn big money in the Greasy Spoon Cafe.
14 players. Designed by Pete O’Donnell.
Lemmings
Guide as many of your lemmings safely through a course of treacherous obstacles, without letting them die - and then take your own turn at being a lemming….
25 players. Designed by Simon Katan.
Like A Velvet Glove
Don your eighteenth-century hat and your eighteenth-century values; then fight duels to protect your all-important honour. But beware treachery.
8 players. Designed by Ben Henley.
Love’s Labour’s Lost
You’ve sworn off love for ever - just in time to fall into it. Can you meet your beloved secretly, while denouncing anyone else involved in furtive assignations?
24 players. Designed by Holly Gramazio.
Manifesto!
You’ve got a political party with some radical ideas. You’ve got a really compelling motto. That was the tricky bit: now you just need to win people over to your cause, get yourself chosen as leader, and make sure your party is elected.
20 players. Designed by Nick Howard.
Nicked!
The Cadbury Diamond has been nicked! Using clues, questioning and your powers of deduction you must decide which suspect nicked it.
12 players. Designed by Rhiannon Cousins.
Psych Out
A playtest of a new game from the same genre as Werewolf, but set in a group therapy session. Can the doctors cure enough patients before the lunatics take over the asylum? James Wallis will be dispensing the red pills.
12 players. Designed by James Wallis.
String Along A Sixpence
An ambient game where players can direct, but not control, the outcome of a comic strip.
Unlimited players. Designed by Pippa Johnson.
Pick Up And Play
Plus the usual pick-up-and-play games: Dadaist Pursuit, the Hat Game, Mao, and more.
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