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Signal to Noise

Forced Entertainment

Legendary British theatre company plays with text, music and physical action in new work. Both light and disconcerting, comical and deadly serious.

Celebrating 40 years of the company’s innovative approaches to performance, the show draws audiences into a compelling encounter with the artists. Signal to Noise is an invitation to reflect on our shared contemporary experience, developed through the group’s rigorous and intuitive collaborative process.

In Forced Entertainment’s Signal to Noise, the stage becomes a hallucinatory expanse across which lone figures drift, dance, run, spring and crawl, isolated but always joined in the connection of possible and impossible stories. There are dances and confrontations, chance encounters and drunken meanderings, moments of confusion, shared joy, stillness and delirium.

‘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

  • English surtitles: Dutch

  • Show duration to be announced

  • Signal to Noise

    © Hugo Glendinning

  • © Hugo Glendinning

  • © Hugo Glendinning

  • © Hugo Glendinning

  • © Hugo Glendinning

credits

concept Forced Entertainment direction Tim Etchells creation Robin Arthur, Seke Chimutengwende, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O’Connor performer Robin Arthur, Seke Chimutengwende, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O’Connor dramaturgy, direction Tyrone Huggins lighting design Nigel Edwards production manager Jim Harrison producer EIleen Evans production Forced Entertainment coproduction Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Centre Pompidou, Festival d’Automne à Paris, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlijn), Holland Festival, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Pact Zollverein, Théatre Garonne

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