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The Tempest - Forced Entertainment

With its themes of freedom, empathy and forgiveness, The Tempest is truly a play for our times. You can see our own performance as part of Complete Works Table Top Shakespeare - available forever and for free on our website.

https://bit.ly/FEtempest

#FECompleteWorks

There's a fantastic opportunity to catch our Associate Artist Tyrone Huggins as Gonzalo in The Tempest @shakespearesglobe.bsky.social, starting 24th January. 

https://bit.ly/4qG2Ydh

Merry Christmas and a peaceful and joyful New Year from all of us at Forced Entertainment.

Image from Cold Sweat by Antoine Billet

www.forcedentertainment.com/projects/cold-sweat/

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And if you are an armchair traveller you can still see our work with Complete Works Online available in full and for free on our website, or explore our archive through our #FERecall project published as part of our 40th Birthday Celebrations.

We travelled the globe in 2025 with performances in Minneapolis, Adelaide, Tasmania, Montpellier, Toulouse, Melbourne, Japan, Madrid, Paris and Stockholm.

“I’m not afraid to pull at the string that might unravel a whole project.”

Read a new interview with @Tim_Etchells in @etcetera_mag as part of their Artists' Entrance series.

🔗e-tcetera.be/artists-entrance-tim-etchells/#

Photo by @HugoGlendinning

Cold Sweat - the new show from Forced Entertainment

21-22 Nov La Commune, Aubervilliers
4-6 Dec Konträr, Stockholm

@kontrarsthlm
@theatredelacommune

In Cold Sweat, the figures onstage are channelling confusion, struggling to articulate desires, dreams and uncertainties, looping their way through speeches and statements that shift uneasily between heartfelt revelation and the recitation of cliches.

Layering music loops with AI-generated voices, returns to the lip-syncing mode of Signal to Noise, mapping bodies to the strange rhythms and tonalities that nonhuman voices produce.

21-22 Nov La Commune, Aubervilliers
4-6 Dec Konträr, Stockholm

@kontrarsthlm
@theatredelacommune

We are in play of some kind. Or a TV soap. Everything is a joke, but nothing is funny. Or everything is funny, and nothing is a joke. 

Cold Sweat, a new show from Forced Entertainment.

21-22 Nov La Commune, Aubervilliers
4-6 Dec Konträr, Stockholm

@kontrarsthlm
@theatredelacommune

Jérôme Bel by Jérôme Bel - Performance Venues One of the most important international dance artists of the past 30 years, French choreographer Jérôme Bel presents a career retrospective.

A blend of filmed dance documentation, monologue, and live restaging, this unexpected evening is both a survey of past creation and a gesture of constant reinvention.

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For ecological reasons, Bel no longer travels by plane; instead, Terry O’Connor plays him, challenging the boundaries between art and interpretation, performance and archive.

Next week (Mon 3 Nov) you can see our own @Terryoconnorfe in Jérôme Bel by Jérôme Bel.

One of the most important international dance artists of the past 30 years, French choreographer Jérôme Bel presents a career retrospective he calls his “auto-bio-choreo-graphy.”

To move in time To move in time

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To Move in Time will be at Temporada Alta, Barcelona on 24 & 25 Oct

To Move in Time is a dizzying monologue written by @Tim_Etchells for performer and collaborator Tyrone Huggins, in which an unnamed protagonist speculates playfully about what he’d do if he were able to travel backwards and forwards in time.

Imagine you can travel through time. Backwards and Forwards. What would you do?

The set for Signal to Noise was lovingly crafted by @autumnmeteorite festival in Tokyo ready for when we arrived.

It's astonishing and disconcerting to find the set in situ - everything the same but just a little bit different. 

The festival will repurpose all the elements after the run has ended.

Opening tonight, Signal to Noise is at Autumn Meteorite Festival in Tokyo.

Same-day tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis starting 60 minutes before the performance at the venue - https://autumnmeteorite.jp/en/news/inseki20250929.

To move in time To move in time

🎟️

To Move in Time will be at Temporada Alta, Barcelona on 24 & 25 Oct

To Move in Time is a dizzying monologue written by @Tim_Etchells for performer and collaborator Tyrone Huggins, in which an unnamed protagonist speculates playfully about what he’d do if he were able to travel backwards and forwards in time.

Imagine you can travel through time. Backwards and Forwards. What would you do?

Jérôme Bel by Jérôme Bel, Mon 3 Nov 7.30pm @performancevenuessheff 

🎟️performancevenues.group.shef.ac.uk/event/jerome-bel-by-jerome-bel/

A blend of filmed dance documentation, monologue, and live restaging, this unexpected evening is both a survey of past creation and a gesture of constant reinvention.

There is an exceptional opportunity top see FE founder member, Terry O'Connor playing Jérôme Bel in the Sheffield production of his career retrospective called his ‘auto-bio-choreo-graphy’.

For ecological reasons, Bel no longer tours, instead he is played by a different performer in each location.

Signal to Noise is part of @autumnmeteorite in Tokyo this October.

An upbeat spectacle which is slowly breaking apart, Signal to Noise summons a delirious late-night churn of fragments – dances, rehearsals, altercations and unexpected weather reports. 

https://bit.ly/AMeteorite

Mixing performance magic and off-hand deconstruction conjuring a unique space for the thoughts, laughter and reflections of spectators.

"Mind blowing… dizzying virtuosity… Forced Entertainment's sense of burlesque has accents of an undeniable darkness in this devastating show",  Le Monde

Signal to Noise will be part of Autumn Meteorite in Tokyo this October.

An upbeat spectacle, breaking apart, Signal to Noise summons a delirious late-night churn of fragments – dances, rehearsals, altercations, scenery changes and unexpected weather reports. 

🎟️https://bit.ly/AMeteorite