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Forced Entertainment is a group of six artists formed in 1984 and led by director and writer Tim Etchells. The Company continually develop new performance and theatre forms to find the most effective articulation of its ideas, to make work that is engaging, challenging and surprising, exploring the possibilities of what theatre might be.

Archive listings for Forced Entertainment

Work type: Performance. There are performances of this work in the listings (current and future) database, see Forced Entertainment

Real Magic - T01501335636

'We've never met before, have we?' To the sound of looped applause and canned laughter, three performers take part in an impossible illusion - part mind-reading feat, part cabaret act, part chaotic game show - as they endlessly revisit moments of defeat, hope and anticipation. Taking popular culture as its starting point, Real Magic presents an unstable trap that speaks to the complex political place we find ourselves in, creating something that is poetic, challenging, funny and provocative. Caught in a world of second chances and second guesses, variations and changes, distortions and transformations, Real Magic takes you on a hallucinatory journey, in a compelling performance about struggle, optimism and the desire for change.
29 Nov 17 to 1 Dec 17Home Theatre, Manchester :: V1858052535
listing details L01678261940
23 Nov 17 to 24 Nov 17mac birmingham - Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham :: V146
listing details L01492127196
22 Aug 17 to 27 Aug 17The Fringe Office, Edinburgh :: V1059
listing details L498297911

Tomorrow's Parties - T01826225647

International innovators Forced Entertainment's latest performance imagines a multitude of hypothetical futures. Two performers wreathed in coloured lights, like a strange fairground attraction, speculate about what tomorrow might bring. Exploring utopian and dystopian visions, science fiction scenarios, political nightmares and absurd fantasies, the audience is carried along on a flowing tide of conjectures, possibilities and dreams. Sometimes collaborative, sometimes competitive, the two performers enjoy the pleasure of invention as their suppositions take them in different directions. Tomorrow's Parties is Forced Entertainment in intimate and comical mode - a playful, poignant and at times delirious look forwards to futures both possible and impossible.
19 Nov 13 to 23 Nov 13BAC (Battersea Arts Centre), Inner London :: V168
listing details L872586731

Bloody Mess - T336221490

Experimental theatre legend Forced Entertainment tours the world extensively with its trademark mixture of deadpan poignancy and barely controlled chaos. Bloody Mess is a unique highlight in the group's diverse repertoire - a kind of channel-hopping Beckett play on a diet of speed and chips - offering Meltdown an exuberant, comical and borderline delinquent evening complete with heavy metal, fighting clowns, a nihilistic cheerleader, bad-tempered Rock gig roadies, a woman in a gorilla suit and a bloke that just wants to tell the story of the Big Big Bang.
19 Jun 07Southbank Centre, West End :: V423
listing details L01989873259

Spill Festival - And on The Thousandth Night - T073724801

A six-hour theatrical performance, during which audience members are free to come and go as they wish, And on the Thousandth Night draws on film plots, religious stories, traditional tales, jokes, modern myths and love stories. The piece was created for the Festival Ayloul in Beirut in 2000 and is presented as part of the SPILL Festival of Performance, an international artist-led programme of new theatre, live art and performance produced by the Pacitti Company.
15 Apr 07Southbank Centre, West End :: V423
listing details L0431301834

Other listings

5 Nov 02 to 6 Nov 02Contact Theatre, Manchester :: V483
listing details L1033295989
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