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Projects

Below is a list of the projects that we are currently presenting, the tour dates page will tell you when and where.
If you are interested in booking any of these performances contact the General Manager.
Use the tab on the right to explore our Project Index from 1984 until the present day.

The Last Adventures

We are in the rubble of a story. An array of homemade costumes summon a pageant involving giant sea monsters, a chorus of the dead or the lost, dancing trees or spirits.

Tomorrow's Parties

Forced Entertainment’s latest performance explores ideas and clichés of hope. Writing and collecting future scenarios as well as small narratives concerning optimism and despair, the company investigate the speculative nature of anticipation and the myriad possibilities the future holds in store....

Although We Fell Short

Forced Entertainment's artistic director Tim Etchells has created a new work for the performance artist Kate McIntosh, woven from the ruins and fragments of a variety of speeches. Material from a range of contemporary and historical political campaigns, party congresses, debates, resignations and...

The Coming Storm

In this new work international innovators Forced Entertainment tangle and cross-cut multiple stories to make a compelling and unstable performance. From love and death to sex and laundry, from shipwrecks to falling snow, personal anecdotes rub shoulders with imaginary movies, and half-remembered...

The Thrill of It All

It's bright under the lights, and hot, and frightening. Nine performers in grubby tuxedos and tarnished sequins play out a comical and disconcerting vaudeville to the strains of Japanese lounge music. After the minimalism of Spectacular and the animated graphic novel of Void Story,...

Void Story

Void Story follows a beleaguered pair of protagonists on a rollercoaster ride through the decimated remains of contemporary culture. Navigating one terrible cityscape after another, mugged, shot at and bitten by insects, pursued through subterranean tunnel systems, stowed away in refrigerated...

Sight is the sense that dying people tend to lose first

“Socks are gloves for the feet. Snow is cold. Water is the same thing as ice. In America things are bigger. America is a country. Korea is also a country. Some men have sex appeal. Blind people cannot see anything. Burglars are men that go into houses and take things which do not belong to...

Spectacular

A lone performer takes to the stage, explaining that the show we're watching is somehow different tonight. The atmosphere is different, his entrance was off, the lights are wrong, some scenery is missing, some performers are absent. The tone is all wrong. Things are somehow falling to pieces, or...

Exquisite Pain

“I decided to continue… until I had got over my pain by comparing it with other people’s, or had worn out my own story through sheer repetition” A man and a woman tell stories of ordinary and not-so-ordinary heart-break, each story accompanied by a single iconic image. A red...

And on the Thousandth Night...

And on the Thousandth Night… was created in September 2000 for Festival Ayloul in Beirut and draws on one section from Forced Entertainment's epic twenty-four-hour performance Who Can Sing A Song to Unfrighten Me? (1999). Taking its title and part of its inspiration from One Thousand and One...

Quizoola!

“What is the capital city of Spain?  Why are people afraid to die? What is a tree?  Was John Wayne really brave?  Are you a natural blonde?” Quizoola! is a durational performance based on a text of 2000 questions by Tim Etchells. The piece lasts six hours and — as in other...