The Last Adventures
Created 2013
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In The Last Adventures Forced Entertainment collaborate with Lebanese sound artist Tarek Atoui to create a compelling performance on an epic scale. Sounds swarm and storm in the air as performers in homemade costumes create a pageant of giant sea monsters, ghosts, fighting kings, marching robots and dancing trees. Before our eyes Forced Entertainment transform a haunted forest into a sky of portentous clouds, or the aftermath of a terrible war. Here and there recognisable characters surface from the chaos in strange juxtapositions, emerging onstage from the ruins of familiar stories, only to disappear in the very next moment.
Working with a cast of twelve international performers, artistic director Tim Etchells leads Forced Entertainment into challenging new territory. With recorded soundtrack mixing electronics from Atoui and live instrumentation from a different special guest musician in each location, The Last Adventures is an intoxicating experience mixing fairy tales, science fiction, children’s picture books and epic myths.
REACTIONS
"What a dreamy beauty..."@SelinaNThompson
"In a theatrical joy ride of epic scale, The Last Adventures by Forced Entertainment deconstructs theatre in the most complex and compelling way."this is tomorrow
"An extraordinary encounter with the act of storytelling itself."Theater der Zeit
credits
Conceived and devised by Forced Entertainment & Tarek Atoui
Direction Tim Etchells
Sound Score and Composition Tarek Atoui
Text Tim Etchells
Design Richard Lowdon
Lighting Design Nigel Edwards
Sound Daniel Teusner
Production Jim Harrison
Dramaturgical Advice Adrian Heathfield
Choreographic Advice Kate McIntosh
Forced Entertainment Performers Robin Arthur, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O’Connor
Guest Performers Gareth Brierley, Mark Etchells, Nada Gambier, Phil Hayes, Nicki Hobday, Maria Jerez, Leja Jurisic, Reena Kalsi, Kuselo Kamau, Thomas Kasebacher, Nina Eva Lampic, Teja Reba, Bruno Roubicek, John Rowley, Kylie Walters, Floor Van Leeuwen
Live Guest Musicians Uriel Barthélémi, Mazen Kerbaj, KK Null, Charbel Haber
The Last Adventures is a Forced Entertainment and Ruhrtriennale – International Festival of the Arts production
Co-produced by Fierce Festival Birmingham, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, Tanzquartier Wien Vienna and Warwick Arts Centre Coventry
The Last Adventures - PREVIOUS SHOWS
Asia Culture Center-Theatre, Gwangju, South Korea
27 Nov 2015 - 28 Nov 2015
Fierce Festival, mac, Birmingham, UK
1 Oct 2014 - 3 Oct 2014
Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, England
1 Oct 2014 - 3 Oct 2014
Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany
4 Mar 2014 - 6 Mar 2014
Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zurich, Switzerland
8 Feb 2014 - 9 Feb 2014
Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna, Austria
16 Jan 2014 - 18 Jan 2014
Ruhrtriennale Festival of the Arts, Ruhr, Germany
5 Sep 2013 - 8 Sep 2013