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Forced Entertainment

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.

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Participating artists
Forced Entertainment (Konzeption und Entwicklung)
Tim Etchells (Regie)
Robin Arthur (Mit)
Seke Chimutengwende (Mit)
Richard Lowdon (Mit)
Claire Marshall (Mit)
Cathy Naden (Mit)
Terry O’Connor (Mit)
Tim Etchells (Text, Musik und Sounddesign)
Richard Lowdon (Bühnenbild)
Jim Harrison (Produktionsleitung)
Eileen Evans (Management)
Dates
April 2026
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