Forced Entertainment
Tomorrow’s Parties
“In costumes of everyday life and ostensible harmlessness, Forced Entertainment develops a major storytelling evening out of the small scene, a competition of the visionary.” Theater heute
The legendary company Forced Entertainment examines the speculative nature of hope and the countless possibilities with which our future puts a spanner in the works time and again. The stage becomes the scene for a cheerful competition between utopias, possibilities, and impossibilities.
In virtuoso storytelling manner, two performers report about realistic developments, fictive future scenarios and the hopes, fears, clichés, and fantasies these bring with them. They narrate about secret dreams, reveal utopian desires, develop new models of society, or naïve fantasies, and thus design a future in which possibly nothing at all has changed and yet everything is different. As ambiguous as ever, comical, subtle, sometimes deliberately banal, thoroughly trashy, but never stooping to slapstick, Tomorrow’s Parties talks about what can only be speculated about. Forced Entertainment again succeeds in declining to submit to conventional theatre and its formal inventory. As veterans of the ‘life-art movement’, as pioneers of post-dramatic theatre, and as ‘masters of productive disappointment’, in collective work processes they have developed full-length shows, small-sized projects, and performance marathons for 25 years and toured around the world. Most recently they were guests at brut with Spectacular in 2008. www.forcedentertainment.com
On 13 January, the performance will be followed by an open discussion with the audience.
Concept Forced Entertainment (Robin Arthur, Tim Etchells, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden & Terry O’Connor) Performers Robin Arthur, Claire Marshall Director Tim Etchells Design Richard Lowdon Lighting Francis Stevenson Production Ray Rennie & Francis Stevenson Management Eileen Evans Marketing Sarah Cockburn Administration Gareth James Assistant to the administration Natalie Simpson
A production by Belluard Bollwerk International thanks to a contribution for the promotion of culture by the Canton of Fribourg in co-operation with the International Summer Festival Hamburg, BIT Teatergarasjen Bergen, Kaaitheater Brussels, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zurich, and Sheffield City Council. With support of the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation. Forced Entertainment is supported by the Arts Council England.
€ 14/8/6 with brutkarte*