Performance

VenueOxford Playhouse
TownOxford
CountyOxfordshire
From13th May 2009
To13th May 2009
When19:30
PricesFrom £12.00. To £17.00.
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Spectacular

T01230619630
A lone performer takes to the stage, explaining that the show we're watching is somehow different tonight. The atmosphere is different, his entrance was off, the lights are wrong, some scenery is missing, some performers are absent. The tone is all wrong. Things are somehow falling to pieces, or maybe things are just now falling into place. The audience reaction, our protagonist says, is not quite what he expected, not quite what he's used to. Perhaps the fact he is dressed as a skeleton has something to do with it. Intimate and comical, Forced Entertainment's Spectacular slowly and seductively winds the audience into the world of a missing performance. Our skeleton host seems relaxed about it, cracking jokes, staying chatty and amiable. But still something's wrong. The fact that the next performer who comes on-stage is caught up in some long, melodramatic and agonised death scene may also explain the shift in tone.


Archive :: production:T01230619630, play:S224698357, venue:V803

Production details

Co-production Partners - BIT Teatergarasgen (Bergen) - Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin) - PACT Zollverein (Essen) - Les Spectacles vivants - Centre Pompidou (Paris) - Theatre Garonne (Toulouse) - Tramway (Glasgow). Run time 1 hour 15 minutes with no interval.

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Company

Company Forced Entertainment
Director Tim Etchells
Design Richard Lowdon
Lighting Nigel Edwards
Performer Robin Arthur
Performer Claire Marshall
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