Forced Entertainment

Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare

Mousonturm Studio 1

Performance/Theater

Megalomaniac and captivating: it took 30 years and numerous acclaimed, demonized and multiple award-winning productions for the British theatre collective to bring the complete works of Shakespeare onto the stage. Forced Entertainment present all 36 Shakespeare plays in nine days! Every night features four comedies tragedies, histories – succinct, drastic, dead serious and utterly hilarious. Pure action in very simple English – 45 minutes a piece. Whether Hamlet, Macbeth or Romeo and Julia, all performed with a full miniature cast in table top-format starring water bottle, razor blade and pillbox. Binge watching fans get a free ticket after every five pieces*!

ALL IN – for all aged 15+!

In modern English * Complete Works is a Forced Entertainment production. Co-produced by Berliner Festspiele – Foreign Affairs Festival, Berlin and Theaterfestival– Basel * Conceived and devised by Forced Entertainment *
Performers: Robin Arthur, Nicki Hobday, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Cathy Naden and Terry O’Connor * Director: Tim Etchells * Text: Robin Arthur, Tim Etchells, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden and Terry O’Connor * Design: Richard Lowdon *
Sound & Lighting: Design Jim Harrison *
Production: Jim Harrison * Complete Works is a Forced Entertainment production * Co-produced by Berliner Festspiele – Foreign Affairs Festival, Berlin and Theaterfestival– Basel. * Forced Entertainment Creative Team: Robin Arthur, Tim Etchells (Artistic Director), Richard Lowdon (Designer), Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden and Terry O’Connor * Forced Entertainment Management Team: Hester Chillingworth (Creative Producer, Participation & Engagement), Eileen Evans (Executive Director), Jim Harrison (Production Manager), and Natalie Simpson (Office Manager)