The Pit Orchestra – Battleship Potemkin 2025

The Ukrainian Singers of Plymouth will open the event with a performance of traditional and contemporary Ukrainian music.
Also, as part of the centenary celebrations, later in December The Pit Orchestra will create a new, high-quality recording of their original Battleship Potemkin score.
Battleship Potemkin 2025 tickets go on sale Friday 5 September via www.thepitorchestra.com.
Images courtesy of BFI, Battleship Potemkin 2025 is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Battleship Potemkin 2025
Centenary performance of The Pit Orchestra’s unique film-with-live-orchestra experience
The House, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
Tuesday, 6 December. Doors open 7.30pm

Plymouth’s eclectic The Pit Orchestra will revive one of its landmark works this December with a special film-with-live-orchestra performance in celebration of the centenary of what is considered one of the greatest films ever created, Battleship Potemkin.

For one night only on 6 December, Plymouth’s University’s The House performing arts centre will journey audiences to a Russian Imperial Navy battleship on the Black Sea when a mutinous uprising by the ship’s crew against their ruthless officers, sparked by spoiled meat, becomes a violent clash and one of the most famous closing scenes in cinema history.

The Pit Orchestra is a freely evolving ensemble of trained and untrained musicians who mix classical and modern instruments and transform with every performance. They write original scores, soundtracks and musical accompaniments in collaboration with filmmakers and artists, and are inspired by a wide variety of musical genres including rock, folk, electro, jazz, ambient and classical. The orchestra formed in 2013 (as The Imperfect Orchestra) and has consistently maintained principles of collaboration, artistic expression, diversity, inclusivity and, perhaps most importantly, celebration of the amateur.