Forced Entertainment
www.forcedentertainment.com
| Conceived and devised by the company: | Robin Arthur, Tim Etchells, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden and Terry O’Connor |
| Performers: | Forced Entertainment |
| Direction: | Tim Etchells |
| Design: | Richard Lowdon |
| Lighting design: | Francis Stevenson |
Pioneers of European avant-garde theatre, the British company Forced Entertainment comes to the Festival de Otoño a Primavera for second time after the success of Quizoola! in 2010, a stunning experimental piece in which they remained onstage for more than six hours without a break. Tomorrow’s Parties, the show that Forced Entertainment now brings for the first time to Spain within the Festival de Otoño a Primavera, 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 its most intimate and comical mode – a playful, poignant and at times delirious look forward to futures both possible and impossible.
The work of Forced Entertainment is a unique and collaborative creative process. It transfers to the audience the main role of interpreting and finding meaning in the schemes of contemporary urban life that shape the main axis of the company’s plays. Guided by Tim Etchells, the group breaks the pre-established canons of theatre in a provocative and charming way, through improvisation, experimentation and debate. In 2014 Forced Entertainment celebrates its 30th birthday onstage, proving they are still at the top of their form. The artistic director of the company Tim Etchells explains Tomorrow’s Parties in the following way: ‘The performers in the play imagine as many possible futures as they can, from workless utopian idylls to post-technological disaster zones, from socialist paradises and democracies that respect difference, to worldwide shopping malls and brutal robot dictatorships.’. The piece is, as he himself defines, ‘a playful attempt to express future with words’.
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