Cold Sweat
Created 2025
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Cold Sweat is a new theatre work from Forced Entertainment, with original texts and sound from the group’s artistic director Tim Etchells.
Layering music loops with AI-generated voices, the performance sees members of the group return to the lip-syncing mode of their epic Signal to Noise, mapping their bodies to the strange rhythms and tonalities that the nonhuman voices produce.
There are stories, questions, and confrontations, fragments of a drama bound together by a mood of emotional and physical overload. The figures onstage are channeling confusion, struggling to articulate desires, dreams and uncertainties, looping their way through speeches and statements that shift uneasily between heartfelt revelation and the recitation of cliches.
We are in play of some kind. Or a TV soap. Everything is a joke, but nothing is funny. Or everything is funny, and nothing is a joke. Through the layers of irony, through the walls of borrowed sound, through the mask of Forced Entertainment’s virtuoso performances, something real is trying to emerge.
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Cold Sweat is a Forced Entertainment Production. Co-produced by KONTRÄR, Stockholm, Sweden and with the support of Théâtre de la Commune, Paris, France
Director Tim Etchells
Devised with and performed by Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall and Terry O’Connor
Text, composition and sound design Tim Etchells
Stage Design Richard Lowdon
Lighting Design Jim Harrison
Production Management Jim Harrison
Producer Eileen Evans
Premiere 22-21 November 2025 Théâtre de la Commune, Paris, France
UPCOMING SHOWS
21 Nov 2025
- 22 Nov 2025
La Commune, Aubervilliers, France
4 Dec 2025
- 6 Dec 2025
Konträr, Stockholm, Sweden