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 maybe things are just now falling into place. The audience reaction, our protagonist says, is not quite what he expected, not quite what he's used to. Perhaps the fact he is dressed as a skeleton has something to do with it.Spectacular is about the now of the performance moment, the trembling edge of laughter, possibility and invention. It's about death and playing dead, about the strange contact between two performers on-stage and an audience caught between what they are watching and what they're being told.Simple, logical, absurd, impossible and humorous by turns, Spectacular is Forced Entertainment's provocative and playful new work.
© Forced Entertainment 2008. Theatre performance.
Co-production Partners
BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen)
Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin)
PACT Zollverein (Essen)
Les Spectacles vivants - Centre Pompidou (Paris)
Theatre Garonne (Toulouse)
Tramway (Glasgow)
Conceived and devised by the company
Performers: Robin Arthur and Claire Marshall.
Direction: Tim Etchells
Design: Richard Lowdon
Lighting Design: Nigel Edwards
