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Congratulations to all the young people involved in yesterday’s performance of FACETIMES as part of the Together! Festival @SheffieldTheatres.

You smashed it!

@elementsociety #congratulations #youdidit #DreamArts

Our brilliant group of young people from @elementsociety will be sharing a brand new show, Facetimes on Friday 1 August at 2:30pm. 
For more information about Together Festival and to reserve your FREE tickets, go to bit.ly/449EbEa

We can't wait to see you there!

This Friday you can see FACETIMES created by young people’s group, Dream Arts working with Forced Entertainment and @elementsociety.

The event takes is part of the Together! Festival @SheffieldTheatres. Tickets are free but you need to book. 

www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/facetimes

This Friday you can see FACETIMES created by young people’s arts group, Dream Arts working with Forced Entertainment and @elementsociety.

Part of the Together! Festival @SheffieldTheatres - tickets for FACETIMES are free but you need to book. 

www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/facetimes

If you are interested in our collaborative practice, this video is a great place to start.

And watch our socials for updates on our project with @elementsociety as part of the Together Festival with @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social 

https://youtu.be/6WmtNkzODVw?si=HP1NjnlvvLBTbdUb

Calling all Drama Teachers! 📣

Did you know you can book a Forced Entertainment workshop to support your students? 

Devising is in our DNA and as a suggested practitioner in the Devising component of Edexcel’s A Level Drama and Theatre syllabus, we’re always happy to share the FE approach.

Tomorrow we wrap - all 36 of Shakespeare's plays performed on a 1m table top using common household items as characters. 

3pm Antony & Cleopatra
4pm Richard II
5pm The Tempest

https://2025.rising.melbourne/program/complete-works-table-top-shakespeare?tab=session-details

Tim in Pula for Portrait of an Author, part of @in.hr_agenzia_per_il_lavoro.

Today and tomorrow, @Ti_Etchells will present a series of works, including a performance with @SekeChim.

Find out more https://www.ink.hr/tim-etchells-u-puli-britanski-umjetnik-i-pisac-lice-manifestacije-portret-autora/

Tomorrow is packed with 6 performances of Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare at @rising.melbourne.

In Complete Works performers create condensed versions of Shakespeare's plays, comically and intimately retelling them, using a collection of everyday objects on the one metre stage of a table top.

Friday night is a lighter programme of Table Top Shakespeare's @rising.melbourne.

Enjoy The Comedy of Errors, Henry VI pt 2 (OK, this one might be a bit darker 😉) and the luminous classic, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The festival has special offers for people who attend more than one event.👏👏👏👏

Tomorrow evening you can get absorbed by 3 of Shakespeare's most dramatic and violent plays - Julius Caesar, Henry VI Pt 1 and The Merchant of Venice. All told in Forced Entertainment's unique style on a 1m table top.

https://2025.rising.melbourne/program/complete-works-table-top-shakespeare

Tomorrow’s Parties is a playful, poignant and delirious look forwards to futures both possible and impossible. 

See it 15-16 May @theatregaronne

⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Unbearably sad yet absurdly optimistic ” The Guardian

🎟️www.theatregaronne.com/spectacle/2024-2025/tomorrow-s-parties

Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare - Forced Entertainment A salt and pepper pot for the king and queen. A vase for the prince. A matchbox for the servant. A toilet roll tube for the Innkeeper. A water bottle for the messenger. In Complete Works six performers create condensed versions of all of the Shakespeare plays, comically and intimately retelling them, using a collection of everyday […]

We've had a wonderful few weeks in Adelaide and Hobart with live performances of Complete Works Table Top Shakespeare.

Did you know that ALL of Shakespeare's plays - told using household objects and on a 1m table - are available for FREE on our website?

https://bit.ly/4iY7D5W
#FECompleteWorks

“This is truly wonderful, innovative theatre that brings the wildly original stories of Shakespeare to audiences with any elitist trappings stripped away.” Rachel Mead, InDaily 11.03.25

Signal to Noise @thlavignette 1-3 Apr

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

🎟️http://bit.ly/3XsVPjV

We're delighted that the whole cast for Complete Works:Table Top Shakespeare have arrived in Australia. It's a huge cast and we have done well to have had no breakages and nothing was squashed or crumpled. 

Looking forward to opening with Coriolanus on 8 Mar @AdelaideFestival

#fecompleteworks

This Spring we return to performing Table Top Shakespeare - a series of intimate  miniatures, played out on a one metre table-top using a collection of everyday objects. 

Adelaide Festival 8 - 16 Mar
Ten Days on the Island, Tasmania 21 - 23 Mar

https://www.forcedentertainment.com/tour-dates/

Vote for us!

We're delighted that Signal to Noise has been nominated for the @nachtkritik.bsky.social  2025 Theatre Awards.

You've only got until the 15th to vote . . .  

https://nachtkritik.de/interview2/nachtkritik-theatertreffen/nachtkritik-theatertreffen-2025-die-nominierten

“Yarın Belki de” 25 Ocak’ta Beykoz Kundura’da Prömiyer Yapıyor! - Sanat Okur Geleceğin bilinmezliğine hayalperest, dokunaklı ve yer yer çılgın bir yolculuk yapmaya hazır olun! Tiyatro sahnesinin usta isimleri Aslı İçözü

“Tomorrow Maybe” premieres at Beykoz Kundura on 25 Jan

Get ready for a dreamy and touching journey into the unknown future. Starring Aslı İçözü and Şerif Erol , directed by Ayşe Draz, “Yarın Belki de” is an adaptation of Forced Entertainment’s classic “Tomorrow’s Parties”.

Vote for us!

We're delighted that Signal to Noise has been nominated for the @nachtkritik.bsky.social 2025 Theatre Awards.

You've only got until the 15th to vote . . .  

https://nachtkritik.de/interview2/nachtkritik-theatertreffen/nachtkritik-theatertreffen-2025-die-nominierten

It's fantastic that 'Signal to Noise' has nominated for the Nachtkritik-Theatertreffen 2025. Please help support the work by voting for the project. Voting closes 15th Jan.

https://bit.ly/3PrGMmc

Pic: Hugo Glendinning.

The Stage Awards 2025 shortlist: International Award Discover our shortlist of the nominees for The Stage Awards 2025 International Award, sponsored by Concord Theatricals

https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/the-stage-awards-2025-shortlist-international-award
#TheStageAwards

It's wonderful to have our work recognised in this way, especially at the end of our busy birthday year which has included touring to 8 countries, a London season and UK tour, plus the launch of Complete Works Online.

"In its 40th year, the company cemented its reputation as one of our leading
international collaborators and a company whose unwillingness to sit still
continues to inspire generation after generation of theatremakers."

We are delighted to have been shortlisted for The Stage Awards 2025 in the International category, saying