The last weekend of BACs

Octoberfest is a veritable garden of delights with many eclectic treats in store, writes Yvonne Gordon.

The mesmerising Frantic Assembly returns with Paines Plough and Contact to stage the London premiere of Tiny Dynamite, hot on the heels of its Edinburgh success. Written by Abi Morgan and directed by Abi Featherstone, it is billed as an impossible love story.

Friends wanting to come to terms with heartache spend several months trying to shake off the ghosts of the past and reclaim their lost selves. When a new flame potentially intertwines their lives they have to decide whether it will make or break them. Have they learned from history or are they doomed to repeat it? The show runs from tonight (Thursday) until Saturday at 8pm, then on Octber 28 at 6pm. Tickets cost £12.75, £6.50 concessions.

Also tonight and tomorrow at 9pm is My Life Is Like A Yo-Yo, staring female clown, Angela de Castro, is a round-the-world rollercoaster ride about the physical and emotional highs and lows of the performing life.

In Pugilist, performance artist Benji Reid poignantly plays a failed boxer who never quite achieves his dream. This double bill, originally scratched in its early stages at BAC during the summer, is now developed further. Tickets are priced at £6.75, £4.50 concessions.

From tomorrow (Friday) until Sunday, Niall Ashdown performs his script, Hungarian Bird Festival. It details his obsessive week-long trip to Hungary with his father in the late 80s to spot as many species of bird as possible. The show is a celebration of, guess what, birds, though the eyes of birdwatchers, (known in the trade as birders) who go, youve guessed it, birdwatching, (known as birding) and has some hilarious and touching moments of pathos and reverie. Tickets cost £8.75, £5.50 concessions.

Also worth checking out on Friday are nine poets from

Apples And Snakes celebrating Black History Month, at 9pm. Tickets cost £4.75, £3.50 concessions.

Mem Morrison on Saturday and Sunday at 7pm explores the similarities between a wedding and a live performance using film footage. The piece also looks at the pros and cons of tradition and the pressure of being brought up by immigrant parents in England. Tickets are priced at £4.75, £3.50 concessions,

For tickets to all shows call the box office on 020 7223 2223