Performance

Venue	Sheffield Theatres
	Also: Lyceum Theatre, Crucible Theatre, Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse
Town	Sheffield
County	South Yorkshire
From	24th October 2012
To	24th October 2012
When	19:45
Sheffield Theatres (V962)
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The Coming Storm

Work:: The Coming Storm (S1117221575)

Forced Entertainment, the UK's most celebrated pioneers of experimental theatre, have been turning theatre upside down and confronting audiences' expectations for over a quarter of a century. In their latest tour de force, The Coming Storm, they turn their attention to narrative - deconstructing and reconstructing something like a ghost story to test the limits of the form. Employing devices from amateur dramatics, puppet theatre, song and na?ve dance, they tell an epic story that is resolutely too big for the stage. This unwieldy narrative is absurd, contradictory and might fall apart at any moment as it is overwritten, reshaped and cannibalised. In a style as inventive as it is clumsy, wrong-headed theatrical tricks take their place alongside broken dances, live music (featured for the first time in the group's work) and increasingly frantic attempts to illustrate their blackly comic and haunting tale.

Production:: (T0729942276)

Age recommendation - 16+

Producer	PACT Zollverein Essen
Producer	Festival Avignon
Producer	Theaterhaus Gessneralle Zurich
Producer	Tanzquartier Vienna
Producer	Lies Spectacles Vivants
Producer	Centre Pompidou Paris
Producer	Festival d'Automne a Paris
Producer	LIFT London
Producer	Battersea Arts Centre London
Producer	Sheffield City Council
Company	Forced Entertainment
Director	Tim Etchells
Design	Richard Lowdon
Sound	John Avery
Lighting	Nigel Edwards
Performer	Robin Arthur
Performer	Phil Hayes
Performer	Richard Lowdon
Performer	Claire Marshall
Performer	Cathy Naden
Performer	Terry O'Connor

Listing:: L188433841

Production details

Age recommendation - 16+

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