Forced Entertainment
Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare: At Home Episode 25–28
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ALL IN/Performance/Theater
- 29.10.2020, 9 p.m. (CEST)Live stream for free, Twelfth Night or What You Will
- 30.10.2020, 9 p.m. (CEST)Live stream for free, Cymbeline
- 31.10.2020, 9 p.m. (CEST)Live stream for free, Julius Caesar
- 01.11.2020, 9 p.m. (CEST)Live stream for free, Antony and Cleopatra
Since 2016 the British theatre collective Forced Entertainment brings the complete works of Shakespeare onto the stage and presented them to more than 35,0000 people., including Mousonturm in 2018. After having spent weeks separated by the recent lockdown, Forced Entertainment came up with the idea of replaying all the dramas once more as a nine-week online series using whatever was already in their own kitchens. Whether “Macbeth” (17.09.), “Romeo and Julia” (24.09.) or „King John“ (25.09.), all are performed with a full miniature cast in table top-format starring water bottle, razor blade and pillbox.
29.10. Twelfth Night or What You Will: Jerry Killick
But what do you want? Cesario loves Orsino. Orsino loves Olivia. Olivia loves Cesario. But Cesario isn’t really Cesario: she’s Viola.
30.10. Cymbeline: Terry O’Connor
Never heard of it?! A complex piece with those perennial favourites; faith, love and jealousy – only much crazier, which may be why hardly anyone dares direct it.
31.10. Julius Caesar: Robin Arthur
Total Rome: wicked, treacherous, murderous. Oh yes, and you too, Brutus.
01.11. Antony and Cleopatra: Cathy Naden
Romeo and Juliet, the grown-up version: they too fall in love, are thwarted and die of despair. Not because of Caesar.
From the age of 15
Duration: 50 Min
Language: modern English
Livestream via FE-Youtube-Channel, afterwards available
On 01.11. artist talk afterwards on Zoom, information on registration follows
Streaming at Mousonturm Studio 1 doesn’t take place.
Cast & Credits
Konzept: Forced Entertainment
Performance: Robin Arthur, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O’Connor
Regie: Tim Etchells
Text: Robin Arthur, Tim Etchells, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O’Connor
Technische Umsetzung: Jim Harrison
A production by Forced Entertainment, financially supported by the following partners: Künstlerhaus Mousonturm; Kanuti Gildi SAAL; Kunstfestspiele Hannover; The Mondavi Center, UC Davis; PACT Zollverein; Romaeuropa Festival; Shakespeare Festival Neuss; Stanford Live at Stanford University; UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance and UC Santa Barbara. Also presented as part of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s 2020 Time-Based Art Festival.
As part of „DMT-Digitaler Mousonturm“ supported within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Funded by the Hessen State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts as part of the intergenerational outreach initiative ALL IN – FOR AUDIENCES OF ALL AGES.
Biography
Forced Entertainment
www.forcedentertainment.com
Als impulsgebende Vorreiter des europäischen Experimentaltheaters realisieren Forced Entertainment seit 1984 Arbeiten in den Bereichen Theater, Performance, Installation, digitale Medien und Film. Tim Etchells ist künstlerischer Leiter der Kompanie und zudem als Autor und Bildender Künstler aktiv. Im März 2016 erhielt Forced Entertainment als erste Kompanie den International Ibsen Award, einen der weltweit renommiertesten Theaterpreise. Ihre Produktion “Real Magic” wurde zum Theatertreffen 2017 der Berliner Festspiele eingeladen. 2018 produzierten Forced Entertainment zusammen mit Künstlerhaus Mousonturm und Schauspiel Frankfurt im Bockenheimer Depot ihre gefeierte Uraufführung von “Out Of Order”. Viele der neueren Arbeiten des Kollektivs entstehen in Koproduktion mit den Partner*innen des Bündnisses für internationale Produktionshäuser. So auch ihre Performance “End Meeting For All”, die ausschließlich im Live Stream zu sehen ist und die wir gemeinsam mit PACT Zollverein und HAU Hebbel am Ufer produzieren und zeitgleich im Internet zeigen.