Tag Archives: Forced Entertainment

Forced Entertainment: Tomorrow's Parties. Photo-Hugo Glendinning

Tomorrow Never Dies

January 12th, 2014 by

Dorothy Max Prior reflects on the recent works of Forced Entertainment The Basement arts centre in Brighton on a school night. A young and eager audience, and a stage set simply – just a square of wooden decking and a festoon of lights. Enter two performers, one male and one female, playing themselves (or versions […]

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Grace Schwindt: Tenant ¦ Photo: Grace Schwindt

SPILL Festival of Performance

November 13th, 2012 by

My journey through SPILL began on Thursday 1 November, and my first port of call was the SPILL Study Café inside SPILL Central. The space was welcoming, warm and served a lovely cup of tea; it was a good base for the festival. From here I could head up to the Ipswich Art School Gallery […]

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Forced Ents BAC Blitz!

October 12th, 2012 by

From love and death to sex and laundry, from shipwrecks to falling snow ~ personal anecdotes rub shoulders with imaginary movies, and half-remembered novels bump into distorted fairytales in Forced Entertainment’s latest show, The Coming Storm, reviewed here by Total Theatre earlier this year. Trademark black humour, a collage of arresting images and an anarchic performance style… […]

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Forced Entertainment: The Coming Storm ¦ Photo: Hugo Glendinning

Forced Entertainment: The Coming Storm

June 23rd, 2012 by

What is it that makes a good story? This is the deceptively simple question Forced Entertainment coyly pose in the opening moments of new productionThe Coming Storm. And it’s a big one! Their responses are multiple, thoughtful and partisan, as you might expect from a company whose body of work has steadily dismantled many of […]

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Forced Entertainment: Void Story ¦ Photo: Hugo Glendinning

Forced Entertainment: Void Story

November 11th, 2011 by

Forced Entertainment are unpredictable, sometimes playing with an audience’s reaction as much as the conventions of performance; you can neverexpect, only anticipate. And it is that sense of anticipation that hangs in the air of the auditorium tonight. The stage is set with desks on either side, microphones, reading lamps, scripts, sound-desk and the ever […]

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