Forced Entertainment
@forcedents
A company of 6 artists who since 1984 have been questioning, pushing & breaking theatre to see what can be built from the wreckage. ww.forcedentertainment.com
We closed our run at the Festival d'Avignon last night. Six nights in the open air in front of audiences who met the work with real warmth. Tim and Claire, on stage afterwards, talking to the crowd. Thanks to the Festival, our team, our audiences, and to Pascale 🙏. Onward to Antwerp - 28&29 Oct.
we're here. avignon is hot. the posters are up. Everything Must Go — 16, 17, 18 & 20, 21, 22 July at La Cour du Lycée Saint-Joseph. 22h. English, French surtitles. come find us.
Everything Must Go at Festival d'Avignon, 16-18 & 20-22 July. Six nights in a bar that doesn't exist. AI voices. Lip sync. The world outside haunts everything. If you're in the south of France next week, come. 🎫 festival-avignon.com/en/edition-2026/programme/everything-must-go-355362
This Friday: Terry O'Connor performs Jérôme Bel. For ecological reasons, Bel no longer flies. Terry - core member of Forced Entertainment for 40+ years - performs his "auto-bio-choreo-graphy" instead. Friday 10 July, 7:30pm, stage@leeds. Pay what you can. A genuinely extraordinary piece of work.
Jérôme Bel no longer flies. So Terry O'Connor performs him instead. On 10 July, Terry O'Connor - a core member of Forced Entertainment - takes on Bel's "auto-bio-choreo-graphy": a career retrospective told through film, monologue and live performance. yorkshiredance.com/whats-on/event/jerome-bel/
Join us for the final night of this late-night fever dream. It's your last chance to catch Signal to Noise @theatreolympia_tours. Tickets & info: https://www.forcedentertainment.com/projects/signal-to-noise/ #ForcedEntertainment #SignalToNoise #LiveArt #ToursEnScène
Signal to Laundry POV: Real life on tour - fair to say, it's not all glamour 😂 Signal to Noise tonight and tomorrow @theatreolympia_tours. Tickets & info: https://www.forcedentertainment.com/projects/signal-to-noise/ #ForcedEntertainment #SignalToNoise #LiveArt #ToursEnScène
Late night in a bar that doesn't really exist. Dreams, tears, drinks and words overflowing. Everything Must Go comes to deSingel, Antwerp - 28 & 29 Oct 2026. Tickets: desingel.be/en/programme/theatre/forced-entertainment-everything-must-go #ForcedEntertainment #Theatre #LiveArt
And that's Utrecht. Thank you @springutrecht for having us - what a night. Everything Must Go heads to Festival d'Avignon in July. Full tour dates via link in bio. #ForcedEntertainment #EverythingMustGo #SpringUtrecht #Avignon #LiveArt
Tonight at @springutrecht - Everything Must Go. Everything is a joke, but nothing is funny. Or everything is funny, and nothing is a joke. Six performers, one very strange evening. Tickets via link in bio - see you at the bar. #ForcedEntertainment #EverythingMustGo #SpringUtrecht #Utrecht
Late at night, in a bar that doesn't really exist. Drinks that might be real. Voices that definitely aren't. Everything Must Go lands at @springutrecht on Saturday. Tickets and full tour dates via link in bio.
Berlin, you were unforgettable. 💥 Huge thanks to the brilliant audiences and the incredible team at @HAU_Berlin for an amazing run of Everything Must Go. We loved every second of it. 📸: Hugo Glendinning #ForcedEntertainment #EverythingMustGo #HAUBerlin
Tonight @HauBerlin - Everything Must Go. This new work is the culmination of our critical investigation into the relation between human beings, and the phantom presences and desires produced by the capitalist machine. hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/programme/pdetail/forced-entertainment-everything-must-go
A shimmering, physical-visual portrait of our present: economies on the brink, cities in ruins, broken hearts, missed opportunities – something has gone terribly wrong in the world out there. Everything Must Go is the third in our trilogy using AI voices and lip sync. 27 - 28 Apr HAU Berlin
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We've been deep in rehearsal for the last three weeks - but this isn't the relic of that work - it's the props table for Everything Must Go. We're opening tonight at @PACT_Zollverein - a venue close to our heart which has regularly supported us and our work.
*NEW London date announced* Cold Sweat will be at the Purcell Room, @southbankcentre.bsky.social on 9 & 10 Oct. This date follows its UK Premiere at @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social on 2 & 3 Oct.
All packed and ready to go, crucial props for new show, Everything Must Go. Thanks to our local, @crownheeley, for helping us out. You didn't think we drank them all ourself, did you? 😉 www.pact-zollverein.de/en/calendar/everything-must-go Everything Must Go premieres 16-18 April
🔗festival-avignon.com/en www.forcedentertainment.com/projects/everything-must-go/ Images Hugo Glendinning @festivaldavignon #FEontour
We're visiting with new show, Everything Must Go, a new work continuing our critical investigation into the relation between human beings, and the phantom presences and desires produced by the capitalist machine.
We're so pleased to be part of the extraordinary line up for the 80th Edition of the Festival d'Avignon.
Everything Must Go opens next week @PACT_Zollverein With six performers onstage – the regular team joined by Seke Chimutengwende – this work sculpts everyday language into a subversive, Dada-istic poetics, at once comical and furious. 16 - 18 Apr PACT Zollverein, Essen Photo @hugoglendinning
Our new show Everything Must Go receives its premiere @PACTZollverein this April The final part in a loose trilogy, Everything Must Go uses lip sync and AI voices to explore the relationship between human beings the the phantom desires produced by the capitalist machine. Photo @hugoglendinning
Everything Must Go, our new piece forms the final part of a loose trilogy using AI voices and lip sync. Now on sale for dates this Spring - www.forcedentertainment.com/tour-dates/ @springutrecht @hauberlin @pact_zollverein
From Thu to Sat this week, Terry and Robin perform six plays from our Table Top Shakespeare series at @Jerseyartscentre. 5 Mar Hamlet + Love's Labour's Lost 6 Mar The Comedy of Errors + King Lear 7 Mar Julius Caesar + Romeo & Juliet 🎫https://artscentre.je/whats-on/ #CompleteWorksFE #FEOnTour
Selected Works: Table Top Shakespeare 5-7 March @jerseyartscentre artscentre.je/
Join @Tim_Etchells at @cafeotodalston for the next From the Lips to the Moon. Line up includes 🔵 @tim_etchells (@forcedents) 🔶 @cassiekinoshi (@intlanthem] 🟩 @pouyaehsaei (@tarafteh) And more TBA 🫶🏽 www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/from-the-lips-to-the-moon-feb-26/
For this one-off event, @Tim_Etchells invites performer Rosana Cade and musician @AngharadDavie to join him in an encounter working with text loop fragments and violin improvisation.
See Selected Works: Table Top Shakespeare @jerseyarts this March. 5 Mar Hamlet + Love's Labours Lost 6 Mar The Comedy of Errors + King Lear 7 Mar Julius Caesar + Romeo & Juliet We guarantee no feline interruptions to these performances 🐈⬛🐾 https://artscentre.je/whats-on/table-top-shakespeare-1/
There's a fantastic opportunity to catch our Associate Artist Tyrone Huggins as Gonzalo in The Tempest @shakespearesglobe.bsky.social, starting 24th January. https://bit.ly/4qG2Ydh