Performance

• Adapting For Distortion + Haptic
  Hiroaki Umeda (Japan)
• AFTERMATHS: a tear in the meat of vision
  Julia Bardsley
• Void Story
  Forced Entertainment
• 11 and 12
  Peter Brook
• Meetings with Remarkable Men (U)
  Directed by Peter Brook
• Lord of the Flies (PG)
  Directed by Peter Brook

Void Story

Forced Entertainment
www.forcedentertainment.com

Void Story follows a beleaguered pair of protagonists on a roller-coaster ride through the decimated remains of contemporary culture. Navigating one terrible cityscape after another, mugged, shot at and bitten by insects, pursued through subterranean tunnel systems, stowed away in refrigerated transport, shacked up in haunted hotels and lost in wildernesses, backstreets and bewildering fun fairs, they travel to the centre of a night so intense that there are no stars to be seen.

Forced Entertainment perform the bleak and comical contemporary fable of Void Story as if it were a radio play, sitting at tables, turning the pages of the script, ‘doing’ the requisite voices and adding in sound effects for gunshots, rain and bad phone-lines. Simultaneously the otherwise empty stage is dominated by a series of projected images, a storyboard for an impossible movie-version of Tim Etchells’ uniquely unsettling text. Somewhere between the live dialogue, the recorded sound effects and the collaged images attempting to visualise the narrative, is where Void Story actually takes place.

2009 marks Forced Entertainment’s 25th. anniversary. Their work – framed and focused by Artistic Director Tim Etchells – is distinctive and provocative, delighting in disrupting the conventions of theatre and the expectations of audiences. Forced Entertainment’s trademark collaborative process – devising work as a group through improvisation, experimentation and debate – has made them pioneers of British avant-garde theatre and earned them an unparalleled international reputation.

Production, Ray Rennie and Elb Hall.
Forced Entertainment is regularly funded by Arts Council England and Sheffield City Council. Void Story was made with the support of Tanzquartier, Vienna and Tate Media.

Part of New Territories 2010. For full listings please click here

Entry also included in the price of an NRLA all day ticket

Void Story

• Sat 20 Mar 2010

  7:30pm

  T1

  £9 / £6