Forced Entertainment

We are a group of 6 artists. We've been making performance since 1984 - questioning, pushing and breaking theatre to see what can be built from the wreckage.

[Forced Entertainment @ForcedEnts]

This year, 2024, we are 40. It’s an extraordinary record: six artists sustaining a unique partnership and creating work together for all this time. As part of our celebrations we are presenting a Season of Performances and Collaborations in London.

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It's fantastic that 'Signal to Noise' has nominated for the Nachtkritik-Theatertreffen 2025. Please help support the work by voting for the project. Voting closes 15th Jan.

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Pic: Hugo Glendinning.

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LAST CHANCE TO VOTE:
Signal to Noise by @ForcedEnts
is nominated for Nacktkritik Theatertreffen 2025. Vote at the link: https://t.co/ohq2EDx0Xi

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Vote for us! Signal to Noise has been been nominated for @nachtkritik Theatre of 2025.

Vote before 15 Jan - https://t.co/Eq06EoZpmt

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We’re excited to present ‘a rare staging of an extraordinary play’ (The Guardian) with @Utopia_Theatre!

@mojisola_kareem directs Death and the King’s Horseman, opening at the Crucible on Monday 3 Feb.

Read more about why ‘Sheffield is in luck’ 👇

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It's fantastic that 'Signal to Noise' has nominated for the Nachtkritik-Theatertreffen 2025. Please help support the work by voting for the project. Voting closes 15th Jan.

https://t.co/NLtPLhRk94

Pic: Hugo Glendinning.

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It's wonderful to have our work recognised in this way, especially at the end of our busy birthday year which has included touring to 8 countries, a London season and UK tour, plus the launch of Complete Works Online.

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#TheStageAwards

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We are delighted to be shortlisted for The Stage Awards 

"In its 40th year, the company cemented its reputation as one of our leading
international collaborators and a company whose unwillingness to sit still
continues to inspire generation after generation of theatremakers."

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In this #FERecall, Verity Leigh remembers coming to work with us as our fulltime administrator and being welcomed to the company at a sharing of Pleasure. 

"Pleasure is about love, hope, modern life, the gods descending to Earth and TV dinners."

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#FE40

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@lemondefr An upbeat spectacle which is slowly breaking apart, Signal to Noise summons a delirious late-night churn of fragments – dances, rehearsals, altercations, scenery changes and unexpected weather reports.

🎟️ https://t.co/iIwPMBppSR
ℹ️ https://t.co/DrIWPJkBDy

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Signal to Noise is @theatregaronne in Toulouse 4-7 Dec.

"Mind blowing . . . dizzying virtuosity . . . Forced Entertainment's sense of burlesque has accents of an undeniable darkness in this devastating show." @LeMondefr 30.11.24

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@nachtkritik An upbeat spectacle which is slowly breaking apart, Signal to Noise summons a delirious late-night churn of fragments – dances, rehearsals, altercations, scenery changes and unexpected weather reports.

🎟️ https://t.co/iIwPMBppSR
ℹ️ https://t.co/DrIWPJkBDy

[Forced Entertainment @ForcedEnts]

Edited by Adrian Heathfield
Designed by David Caines
Photography by Hugo Glendinning
Performance texts by Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment

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Shopping for Christmas? This is your last chance to treat yourself, or a friend to Things That Go through Your Mind When Falling - the definitive book about Forced Entertainment. Available at just £15 plus P&P until 30 Nov

🛍️Buy it here: https://t.co/d8CSjkPlsq

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@CentrePompidou   
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Our next stop on the Signal to Noise Tour is at the Centre Pompidou as part of @festivaldautomne,

“Forced Entertainment has always made stage art that is so present that it scratches at the edges of the future.” Frankfurter Allgemeine

Book here: https://t.co/5fku41HhY1

[The Reviews Hub @TheReviewsHub]

#THEATRE #REVIEW Forced Entertainment: If All Else Fails @battersea_arts @ForcedEnts 'likely to cause discombobulation, disorientation, and profound feelings of existential despair' ⭐️⭐️⭐️ https://t.co/8HDzsSrAi1 #London

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Join @cathy_naden and @SekeChim for a Post-Show talk this Saturday after the afternoon performance of If All Else Fails @battersea_arts.

‘Cruel, comical game of repetition and reversal from Forced Entertainment’ ★★★★ The Stage

[Forced Entertainment @ForcedEnts]

Join @cathy_naden and @SekeChim for a Post-Show talk this Saturday after the afternoon performance of If All Else Fails @battersea_arts.

‘Cruel, comical game of repetition and reversal from Forced Entertainment’ ★★★★ The Stage