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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

COLD SWEAT. UK PREMIERE. NEXT WEEK. After Paris and Stockholm, the delirious AI party-piece lands in the UK for the first time. Music loops. Voices that are not quite human. A room you might not want to leave. 📍 Sheffield Theatres / Open Works Festival 📅 2–3 Oct 🎫 forcedentertainment.com

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Selected Works: Table Top Shakespeare arrives at Sydney Opera House this week. Shakespeare's most gripping stories told on a 1m tabletop with household objects playing all the parts. Tickets form the venue.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Table Top Shakespeare opens this week at Sydney Opera House. For six nights in The Studio, Claire Marshall and Richard Lowdon perform selected double bills from our Complete Works project — all thirty-six of Shakespeare's plays, retold from memory using everyday objects on a one-metre table.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Selected Works: Table Top Shakespeare opens later this month at Sydney Opera House. Claire Marshall and Richard Lowdon perform Shakespeare, retold from memory, with relish (and the occasional marmalade jar). 22-27 Sep. The Studio, Sydney Opera House.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Seke Chimutengwende's The Last Quartet premieres at The Place, London, 24-26 September. Four dancers. No fixed sequences. No fixed order. A last attempt at choreography, inspired by T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. With Jamie McCarthy. 🎟️ theplace.org.uk/events/autumn-winter-26-the-last-quartet/

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Three shows, one company. From AI-driven lip-sync to tabletop Shakespeare, we're touring our full range of work to this Autumn.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Three shows, one company. From AI-driven lip-sync to tabletop Shakespeare, we're touring our full range of work to this Autumn.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We closed our run at the Festival d'Avignon last night. Six nights in the open air in front of audiences who met the work with real warmth. Tim and Claire, on stage afterwards, talking to the crowd. Thanks to the Festival, our team, our audiences, and to Pascale 🙏. Onward to Antwerp - 28&29 Oct.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Final night. Open sky. The bar closes at midnight (or 23:40, technically). Everything Must Go — last chance at La Cour du Lycée Saint-Joseph, 22h. Avignon, it's been wild. 🍷 #FestivaldAvignon #Avignon #EverythingMustGo #ForcedEntertainment 📷 Eileen Evans

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

we're here. avignon is hot. the posters are up. Everything Must Go — 16, 17, 18 & 20, 21, 22 July at La Cour du Lycée Saint-Joseph. 22h. English, French surtitles. come find us.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Everything Must Go at Festival d'Avignon, 16-18 & 20-22 July. Six nights in a bar that doesn't exist. AI voices. Lip sync. The world outside haunts everything. If you're in the south of France next week, come. 🎫 festival-avignon.com/en/edition-2026/programme/everything-must-go-355362

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This Friday: Terry O'Connor performs Jérôme Bel. For ecological reasons, Bel no longer flies. Terry - core member of Forced Entertainment for 40+ years - performs his "auto-bio-choreo-graphy" instead. Friday 10 July, 7:30pm, stage@leeds. Pay what you can. A genuinely extraordinary piece of work.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Jérôme Bel no longer flies. So Terry O'Connor performs him instead. On 10 July, Terry O'Connor - a core member of Forced Entertainment - takes on Bel's "auto-bio-choreo-graphy": a career retrospective told through film, monologue and live performance. yorkshiredance.com/whats-on/event/jerome-bel/

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Join us for the final night of this late-night fever dream. It's your last chance to catch Signal to Noise @theatreolympia_tours. Tickets & info: www.forcedentertainment.com/project… #ForcedEntertainment #SignalToNoise #LiveArt #ToursEnScène

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Signal to Laundry POV: Real life on tour - fair to say, it's not all glamour 😂 Signal to Noise tonight and tomorrow @theatreolympia_tours. Tickets & info: www.forcedentertainment.com/project… #ForcedEntertainment #SignalToNoise #LiveArt #ToursEnScène

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Signal to Noise is a delirious late-night churn of physical fragments and lip-synced snapshots. Catch us tonight through to Friday @theatreolympia_tours. Tickets & info: www.forcedentertainment.com/project… #ForcedEntertainment #SignalToNoise #LiveArt #ToursEnScène

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Late night in a bar that doesn't really exist. Dreams, tears, drinks and words overflowing. Everything Must Go comes to deSingel, Antwerp - 28 & 29 Oct 2026. Tickets: desingel.be/en/programme/theatre/forced-entertainment-everything-must-go #ForcedEntertainment #Theatre #LiveArt

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

And that's Utrecht. Thank you @springutrecht for having us - what a night. Everything Must Go heads to Festival d'Avignon in July. Full tour dates via link in bio. #ForcedEntertainment #EverythingMustGo #SpringUtrecht #Avignon #LiveArt

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Tonight at @springutrecht - Everything Must Go. Everything is a joke, but nothing is funny. Or everything is funny, and nothing is a joke. Six performers, one very strange evening. Tickets via link in bio - see you at the bar. #ForcedEntertainment #EverythingMustGo #SpringUtrecht #Utrecht

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Late at night, in a bar that doesn't really exist. Drinks that might be real. Voices that definitely aren't. Everything Must Go lands at @springutrecht on Saturday. Tickets and full tour dates via link in bio.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Signal to Noise is a delirious late-night churn of fragments - dances, rehearsals, altercations, speeches and stories. Six performers caught in a loop of beginnings and endings, noise and static, something always almost happening.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Berlin, you were unforgettable. 💥 Huge thanks to the brilliant audiences and the incredible team at @HAU_Berlin for an amazing run of Everything Must Go. We loved every second of it. 📸: Hugo Glendinning #ForcedEntertainment #EverythingMustGo #HAUBerlin

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Bidding farewell to @HAUBerlin tonight! Taking a moment to shout out the immense stamina, humour, and brilliance of the Everything Must Go cast who poured everything into the show. 🍺🍷🍻🍾 Thank you to everyone who joined us for in Berlin. @SpringUtrecht, you're up next!

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Tonight @HauBerlin - Everything Must Go. This new work is the culmination of our critical investigation into the relation between human beings, and the phantom presences and desires produced by the capitalist machine. hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/programme/pdetail/forced-entertainment-everything-must-go

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A shimmering, physical-visual portrait of our present: economies on the brink, cities in ruins, broken hearts, missed opportunities – something has gone terribly wrong in the world out there. Everything Must Go is the third in our trilogy using AI voices and lip sync. 27 - 28 Apr HAU Berlin

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Late night in a bar that doesn’t really exist, dreams, tears, drinks and words are overflowing. Everything Must Go tours to @HAUBerlin next week. 27 - 29 Apr @HauBerlin 🎫www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/programme/pdetail/forced-entertainment-everything-must-go Image: @HugoGlendinning

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"Something went wrong out there; economy tanked, burned or run to ruins, cities and highways sluiced thick with the mud. People are talking in circles and the circles always, without question, come back to the same place." #FEEverythingMustGo #FE2026 Photos: @HugoGlendinning

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

We've been deep in rehearsal for the last three weeks - but this isn't the relic of that work - it's the props table for Everything Must Go. We're opening tonight at @PACT_Zollverein - a venue close to our heart which has regularly supported us and our work.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

*NEW London date announced* Cold Sweat will be at the Purcell Room, @southbankcentre.bsky.social on 9 & 10 Oct. This date follows its UK Premiere at @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social on 2 & 3 Oct.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

All packed and ready to go, crucial props for new show, Everything Must Go. Thanks to our local, @crownheeley, for helping us out. You didn't think we drank them all ourself, did you? 😉 www.pact-zollverein.de/en/calendar/everything-must-go Everything Must Go premieres 16-18 April

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We're so pleased to be part of the extraordinary line up for the 80th Edition of the Festival d'Avignon.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Everything Must Go opens next week @PACT_Zollverein With six performers onstage – the regular team joined by Seke Chimutengwende – this work sculpts everyday language into a subversive, Dada-istic poetics, at once comical and furious. 16 - 18 Apr PACT Zollverein, Essen Photo @hugoglendinning

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Our new show Everything Must Go receives its premiere @PACTZollverein this April The final part in a loose trilogy, Everything Must Go uses lip sync and AI voices to explore the relationship between human beings the the phantom desires produced by the capitalist machine. Photo @hugoglendinning

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Everything Must Go, our new piece forms the final part of a loose trilogy using AI voices and lip sync. Now on sale for dates this Spring - www.forcedentertainment.com/tour-dates/ @springutrecht @hauberlin @pact_zollverein

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

From Thu to Sat this week, Terry and Robin perform six plays from our Table Top Shakespeare series at @Jerseyartscentre. 5 Mar Hamlet + Love's Labour's Lost 6 Mar The Comedy of Errors + King Lear 7 Mar Julius Caesar + Romeo & Juliet 🎫https://artscentre.je/whats-on/ #CompleteWorksFE #FEOnTour

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Selected Works: Table Top Shakespeare 5-7 March @jerseyartscentre artscentre.je/

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Join @Tim_Etchells at @cafeotodalston for the next From the Lips to the Moon. Line up includes 🔵 @tim_etchells (@forcedents) 🔶 @cassiekinoshi (@intlanthem] 🟩 @pouyaehsaei (@tarafteh) And more TBA 🫶🏽 www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/from-the-lips-to-the-moon-feb-26/

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

For this one-off event, @Tim_Etchells invites performer Rosana Cade and musician @AngharadDavie to join him in an encounter working with text loop fragments and violin improvisation.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

See Selected Works: Table Top Shakespeare @jerseyarts this March. 5 Mar Hamlet + Love's Labours Lost 6 Mar The Comedy of Errors + King Lear 7 Mar Julius Caesar + Romeo & Juliet We guarantee no feline interruptions to these performances 🐈‍⬛🐾 artscentre.je/whats-on/table-top-sh…

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Last year we performed all of Shakespeare's plays on table tops in Adelaide, Tasmania and Melbourne. Your next chance to see Selected Works: Table Top Shakespeare is @jerseyartscentre where two performers create condensed versions of six Shakespeare’s most iconic plays.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

There's a fantastic opportunity to catch our Associate Artist Tyrone Huggins as Gonzalo in The Tempest @shakespearesglobe.bsky.social, starting 24th January. bit.ly/4qG2Ydh

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Merry Christmas and a peaceful and joyful New Year from all of us at Forced Entertainment. Image from Cold Sweat by Antoine Billet www.forcedentertainment.com/projects/cold-sweat/

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

We travelled the globe in 2025 with performances in Minneapolis, Adelaide, Tasmania, Montpellier, Toulouse, Melbourne, Japan, Madrid, Paris and Stockholm.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

“I’m not afraid to pull at the string that might unravel a whole project.” Read a new interview with @Tim_Etchells in @etcetera_mag as part of their Artists' Entrance series. 🔗e-tcetera.be/artists-entrance-tim-etchells/# Photo by @HugoGlendinning

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

In Cold Sweat, the figures onstage are channelling 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.

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Layering music loops with AI-generated voices, returns to the lip-syncing mode of Signal to Noise, mapping bodies to the strange rhythms and tonalities that nonhuman voices produce. 21-22 Nov La Commune, Aubervilliers 4-6 Dec Konträr, Stockholm @kontrarsthlm @theatredelacommune

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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. Cold Sweat, a new show from Forced Entertainment. 21-22 Nov La Commune, Aubervilliers 4-6 Dec Konträr, Stockholm @kontrarsthlm @theatredelacommune

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Forced Entertainment @forcedents.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Next week (Mon 3 Nov) you can see our own @Terryoconnorfe in Jérôme Bel by Jérôme Bel. One of the most important international dance artists of the past 30 years, French choreographer Jérôme Bel presents a career retrospective he calls his “auto-bio-choreo-graphy.”

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