Scratch This – A “Safe” Place For New Work?

BAC’s Scratch nights offer new experimental productions. Jerry Spring the Opera went the Scratch route. But “the defining cliche of Scratch culture is that, in it, artists are offered “a safe space to fail”. But a safe space isn’t the kind of “risk-taking” environment that Scratch proponents espouse, of course: it’s the reverse, a neutralised zone in which (necessarily) risk-averse organisations can release beta-versions of new products without exposing themselves commercially.”