Legendary British theatre company plays with text, music and physical action in new work. Forced Entertainment celebrates its 40th birthday, with a powerful mix of performance magic and off-hand deconstruction.
Is the microphone on?
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. AI voices are enlisted to perform the text – their unreal chatter and patter mixing interior monologues, unfinished jokes and off-topic interviews. It all sounds right, more or less human, more or less real. What could go wrong?
The six performers lip-sync all the voices, sometimes carefully, sometimes with unhelpful abandon, bringing life to these disembodied, never-bodied speakers. In the process they summon a strange and compelling world where the question of what’s human and what’s not, what’s real life and what’s just pretending is never far away.
Etchells' musical score mixes everything: from filmic atmospheres to noise, xylophones to slowed classical strings, beats, trumpets, grunge guitars, and birdsong. But as ever with the company, the performers are the heart of the work - animating it with the energy and inventiveness that Forced Entertainment have made their calling card.
‘We make work that refuses to be simply an entertainment taking place at a distance, down the other end of the telescope, down there on the stage. Instead we try to find ways to triangulate the work directly to the auditorium. As if to ask the audience who they are and who is sitting with them, to wonder not about the narrative of a drama but about the truly present situation and dynamic of the theatre.’
- Tim Etchells
dates
Sun June 16 8:00 PM
Mon June 17 8:00 PM
Tue June 18 8:00 PM
Prices
- default from € 28
- CJP/student/scholar € 13
language & duration
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English surtitles: Dutch
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Show duration to be announced
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Signal to Noise
© Hugo Glendinning
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© Hugo Glendinning
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© Hugo Glendinning
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© Hugo Glendinning
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© Hugo Glendinning
