description

Forced Entertainment’s latest performance explores ideas and clichés of hope. Writing and collecting future scenarios as well as small narratives concerning optimism and despair, the company investigate the speculative nature of anticipation and the myriad possibilities the future holds in store.

Tomorrow’s Parties draws on ideas of utopian and dystopian projections, the optimistic stories we tell ourselves and on the pleasures of invention that arise as the work twists and turns in performance. From these conjectures, day dreams and gripping but well-worn narratives the piece will move out in different directions to other kinds of speculations – the realistic, the personal and the evidently fantastical. Tomorrow’s Parties is Forced Entertainment in intimate and comical mode - a playful, poignant and at times delirious look forwards to futures both possible and impossible.

Read Notebook entries on Tomorrow's Parties here.

© Forced Entertainment 2011. Theatre performance.

WORLD PREMIERE
24 - 25 June 2011 | 10pm
Tomorrow's Parties
Festival Belluard Bollwerk International, Fribourg
+41 26 321 24 20
www.belluard.ch

Credits

Conceived and devised by the company
Performers: Forced Entertainment
Direction: Tim Etchells
Design: Richard Lowdon
Lighting Design: Francis Stevenson
Production: Ray Rennie and Francis Stevenson

Co-production Partners: Tomorrow's Parties is a production of Belluard Bollwerk International, made possible thanks to a contribution of the Canton of Fribourg to culture. In co-production with BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Internationale Sommerfestival (Hamburg), Kaaitheater (Brussels), Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt), Theaterhaus Gessnerallee (Zurich) and Sheffield City Council. With the support of Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation