Forced Entertainment

@forcedents.bsky.social

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.

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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

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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.

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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/

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Signal to Noise is a delirious late-night churn of fragments - dances, rehearsals, altercations, speeches and stories. Six performers caught in a loop of beginnings and endings, noise and static, something always almost happening.

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Bidding farewell to @HAUBerlin tonight! Taking a moment to shout out the immense stamina, humour, and brilliance of the Everything Must Go cast who poured everything into the show. 🍺🍷🍻🍾 Thank you to everyone who joined us for in Berlin. @SpringUtrecht, you're up next!

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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

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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

Late night in a bar that doesn’t really exist, dreams, tears, drinks and words are overflowing. Everything Must Go tours to @HAUBerlin next week.    27 - 29 Apr @HauBerlin 🎫www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/programme/pdetail/forced-entertainment-everything-must-go Image: @HugoGlendinning

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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.

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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.  16-18 Apr pact-zollverein.de

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

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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

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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

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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

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