Exquisite Pain
A simple and intimate performance about remembering and forgetting, love, loss and the stories we tell ourselves when things have gone wrong, based on a project by renowned French conceptual artist Sophie Calle."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."
Forced Entertainment explores how the forces of language, memory and forgetting move to contain, preserve or erase events and how as a person one comes to terms with trauma.
© Forced Entertainment 2005. Theatre performance. From a text by Sophie Calle.
Co-produced by Theater der Welt 2005 (Stuttgart), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), The National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture (Oslo), Kaaitheater (Brussels), La Filature, scène nationale de Mulhouse, and Tanzquartier Wien.
Credits
Conceived and devised by the company
Performers: Robin Arthur, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O'Connor
Direction: Tim Etchells
Text: Sophie Calle
Design: Richard Lowdon
Lighting Design: Nigel Edwards
