Forced Entertainment research

And on the Thousandth Night....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wCbCpODReU

Tomorrow's Parties

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2R089WovDw

"The work we make tries to explore what theatre and performance can mean in contemporary life and is always a kind of conversation or negotiation, something that needs to be live. We’re interested in making performances that excite, challenge, question and entertain other people. We’re interested in confusion as well as laughter.

We started working together in 1984; in the many projects we’ve created since then we’ve made lists, played games, spoken gibberish, stayed silent, made a mess, dressed up, stripped down, confessed to it all, performed magic tricks, told jokes, clowned around, played dead, got drunk, told stories and performed for six, twelve and even 24 hours at a stretch. We’ve worked on texts, we’ve danced and moved, we’ve fixed things meticulously, we’ve improvised. We’ve made serious work that turned out to be comical, and comical work that turned out to be deadly serious, digging deep into theatre and performance, thinking about what those things might be for us and what kinds of dialogue they can open with contemporary audiences."

I think forced entertainment can definitely been seen as in influence in our piece. They are such an experimental theatre company, and I just love that there does not seem to be any boundaries for them, which I think we can obviously take something from because our piece very much stands on its own, and is fairly unique. I think in terms of improvisation we can definitely take some inspiration from them, in terms of playing with theatricality when we have an audience in the performance space as well as experimenting with characterisation. Additionally improvisation is always a great tool for rehearsals, I find some of the best rehearsals have involved some improvisation that has provoked a new reflection or intention in a character I am playing, which is always helpful.