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 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.
We are in play of some kind. Or a TV soap. 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 between heartfelt revelation and the recitation of cliches. 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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Conceived and devised by the company
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
Cold Sweat is a Forced Entertainment production
Co-produced by KONTRÄR, Stockholm, Sweden and with the support of La Commune, Centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers, and La Menagerie De Verre, France
Premiere 22-21 November 2025 La Commune, CON d’Aubervilliers, France
Cold Sweat - PREVIOUS SHOWS
4 Dec 2025 - 6 Dec 2025
La Commune, Aubervilliers, France
21 Nov 2025 - 22 Nov 2025