Conceived and devised by: Forced Entertainment / Director: Tim Etchells / Devised and performed by: Robin Arthur, Seke Chimutengwende, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O’Connor / Text, music composition and sound design: Tim Etchells / Stage design: Richard Lowdon / Production management: Jim Harrison / Producer: Eileen Evans
Forced Entertainment
Everything Must Go
- Performance
English /
approx. 100 mins.
Late night in a bar that doesn’t really exist, dreams, tears, drinks and words are overflowing. Forced Entertainment create a shimmering, physical-visual portrait of our present: the economy on the brink of collapse, cities in ruins, broken hearts, missed opportunities – something went wrong out there.
With “Everything Must Go,” the pioneers of British experimental theatre follow up on their work “Signal to Noise,” which was also co-produced by and performed at HAU two years ago – and at the same time conclude the final part of their loose trilogy, which works with AI voices and lip sync. Tim Etchells and the group transform everyday speech into a subversive, Dadaist poetics that is both funny and angry: disembodied, algorithmic articulations meet lively, sweating bodies until language turns into movement and figures and stories flash out of the babble of voices. As a result, people are talking in circles and the circles always, without question, come back to the same place. Here.
Team
Dates
Past
After the performance on the 28.3.: Talk with Berit Stumpf and Bastian Trost (Gob Squad) and Cathy Naden and Robin Arthur (Forced Entertainment) / English
Price: 17–29 €, reduced 9–20 €
Credits
Production: Forced Entertainment. Co-produktion: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Factory International (Manchester), Festival d’Avignon, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt am Main), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Spring Festival (Utrecht).
Location
HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2.
