We are a group of six artists.
We started working together in 1984 and in the many projects we’ve created we’ve tried to explore what theatre and performance can mean in contemporary life. In doing so we’ve made lists, played games, spoken gibberish, stayed silent, made a mess, dressed up, stripped down, confessed to it all, performed magic tricks, told jokes, clowned around, played dead, got drunk, told stories and performed for six, twelve and even 24 hours at a stretch.
The work we make is always a kind of conversation or negotiation. We’re interested in making performances that excite, frustrate, challenge, question and entertain. We’re interested in confusion as well as laughter.
It’s seriously playful work and we’re still trying to answer our questions about theatre and performance – about what those things might be for us and what kinds of dialogue they can open with contemporary audiences.
As well as performance works, we’ve made gallery installations, site-specific pieces, books, photographic collaborations, videos and even a mischievous guided bus tour.
We’re based in Sheffield but we present the work we make all over the world.
We are a group of six artists.
We started working together in 1984 and in the many projects we’ve created we’ve tried to explore what theatre and performance can mean in contemporary life. In doing so we’ve made lists, played games, spoken gibberish, stayed silent, made a mess, dressed up, stripped down, confessed to it all, performed magic tricks, told jokes, clowned around, played dead, got drunk, told stories and performed for six, twelve and even 24 hours at a stretch.
The work we make is always a kind of conversation or negotiation. We’re interested in making performances that excite, frustrate, challenge, question and entertain. We’re interested in confusion as well as laughter.
It’s seriously playful work and we’re still trying to answer our questions about theatre and performance – about what those things might be for us and what kinds of dialogue they can open with contemporary audiences.
As well as performance works, we’ve made gallery installations, site-specific pieces, books, photographic collaborations, videos and even a mischievous guided bus tour.
We’re based in Sheffield but we present the work we make all over the world.
www.forcedentertainment.com
Check out Forced Entertainment before the festival!:
THE COMING STORM
UK Premiere
19 – 23 June 2012 | Battersea Arts Centre, London
Part of LIFT Festival 2012 and London 2012 Festival
International innovators Forced Entertainment have been turning theatre upside down and exploding audience expectations for over a quarter of a century. In their latest tour de force, The Coming Storm, they employ devices from amateur dramatics, naive theatre and music hall to tell an epic story that is resolutely too big for the stage. In a style as inventive as it is absurd, wrong-headed theatrical tricks take their place alongside broken dances and, for the first time in the group’s work, live music. Things begin to unravel as attempts to illustrate this darkly comic and haunting tale get increasingly extraordinary.
Tickets: www.bac.org.uk <http://www.bac.org.uk> | 020 7223 2223