description

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, internationally renowned innovators Forced Entertainment return with a large cast on a big stage, filled with ragged dances and distorted voices.
 
Deranged dancing girls swirl, giggle, bicker and stray ever further from the point. Shabby comperes compete for the microphone and the audience’s laughter as the show itself slowly starts to unravel. Dances end in fights, jokes end in confusion and sentimental stories end in arguments in this unsettling and extraordinary performance.

© Forced Entertainment 2010. Theatre performance.

Credits

Conceived and devised by the company

Performers: Thomas Conway, Amit Hadari, Phil Hayes, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O’Connor, John Rowley.
Direction: Tim Etchells
Design: Richard Lowdon
Lighting Design: Nigel Edwards
Music and Sound: John Avery
Choreographic advice: Kate McIntosh
Director's Assistant: Hester Chillingworth
Production: Ray Rennie and Francis Stevenson

Co-production partners: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin),
PACT Zollverein (Essen), Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou in collaboration with Festival d’Automne (Paris) and Theatre Garonne (Toulouse).

With support from Sheffield City Council.