Under Bright Light
Created 2022
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Under a sky of cool white light six figures in identical blue overalls get to work shifting tables, chairs, ladders and cardboard boxes. Things go from one pile go to another, and from there to another and from there to yet another. Boxes are stacked, tables set down, chairs shunted and then carefully placed. The figures work with determination, heads down, no nonsense but despite their best efforts the task is somehow never completed.
Forced Entertainment’s Under Bright Light is a Sisyphean slapstick, a warehouse somewhere in a cartoon hell, a brash video game on a broken loop. Glitch by glitch, error by error, subversive move by subversive move, the machine goes wrong, descending into chaos, reinventing and transforming itself in unexpected ways.
With direction by Tim Etchells, performance by the core group of Forced Entertainment and an original soundtrack by artist and composer Graeme Miller, Under Bright Light is Forced Entertainment at its uncompromising best; a dark and unsettling successor to the group’s acclaimed recent works Real Magic and Out of Order, which have together consolidated the ensemble’s reputation for producing compelling, intimate and highly political work from unexpected materials whilst maintaining a commitment to exploring new performance and theatrical forms that both challenge and connect deeply with audiences.
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Conceived and devised by the company
Director Tim Etchells
Devised and Performed by Robin Arthur, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden and Terry O’Connor
Created with input from Nicki Hobday
Lighting Design Nigel Edwards
Composer Graeme Miller
Design Richard Lowdon
Production Management Jim Harrison
Touring Technical Manager Alex Fernandes
Under Bright Light is a Forced Entertainment production. Co-produced by: PACT Zollverein Essen, HAU Hebbel Am Ufer Berlin, Künsterlhaus Moustonturm Frankfurt.
Under Bright Light - PREVIOUS SHOWS
Théâtre la Vignette, Montpellier, France
11 Oct 2022 - 13 Oct 2022
Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse, France
6 Oct 2022 - 8 Oct 2022
Stockholm Fringe Festival (Stoff), Stockholm, Sweden
14 Sep 2022 - 15 Sep 2022
Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany
5 Apr 2022 - 8 Apr 2022
HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
31 Mar 2022 - 2 Apr 2022
PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany
24 Mar 2022 - 26 Mar 2022