We are a group of 6 artists. We've been making performance since 1984 - questioning, pushing and breaking theatre to see what can be built from the wreckage.

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This year, 2024, we are 40. It’s an extraordinary record: six artists sustaining a unique partnership and creating work together for all this time. As part of our celebrations we are presenting a Season of Performances and Collaborations in London. youtu.be/Si7AVgaX3cg?si=ZVG7…
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Vote for us! Signal to Noise has been been nominated for @nachtkritik Theatre of 2025. Vote before 15 Jan - bit.ly/3PrGMmc @PACTZollverein @HebbelAmUfer @hollandfestival @southbankcentre @VIERNULVIERGent @tim_etchells @SekeChim @cathy_naden @terryoconnorfe
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It's fantastic that 'Signal to Noise' has nominated for the Nachtkritik-Theatertreffen 2025. Please help support the work by voting for the project. Voting closes 15th Jan. bit.ly/3PrGMmc Pic: Hugo Glendinning.
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LAST CHANCE TO VOTE: Signal to Noise by @ForcedEnts is nominated for Nacktkritik Theatertreffen 2025. Vote at the link: nachtkritik.de/nachtkritik-t…
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Vote for us! Signal to Noise has been been nominated for @nachtkritik Theatre of 2025. Vote before 15 Jan - bit.ly/3PrGMmc @PACTZollverein @HebbelAmUfer @hollandfestival @southbankcentre @VIERNULVIERGent @tim_etchells @SekeChim @cathy_naden @terryoconnorfe
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We’re excited to present ‘a rare staging of an extraordinary play’ (The Guardian) with @Utopia_Theatre! @mojisola_kareem directs Death and the King’s Horseman, opening at the Crucible on Monday 3 Feb. Read more about why ‘Sheffield is in luck’ 👇 bit.ly/4gVRpt8
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We are delighted to be shortlisted for The Stage Awards  "In its 40th year, the company cemented its reputation as one of our leading international collaborators and a company whose unwillingness to sit still continues to inspire generation after generation of theatremakers."
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It's wonderful to have our work recognised in this way, especially at the end of our busy birthday year which has included touring to 8 countries, a London season and UK tour, plus the launch of Complete Works Online. thestage.co.uk/features/the-… #TheStageAwards
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In this #FERecall, Verity Leigh remembers coming to work with us as our fulltime administrator and being welcomed to the company at a sharing of Pleasure.  "Pleasure is about love, hope, modern life, the gods descending to Earth and TV dinners." forcedentertainment.com/proj… #FE40
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Signal to Noise is @theatregaronne in Toulouse 4-7 Dec. "Mind blowing . . . dizzying virtuosity . . . Forced Entertainment's sense of burlesque has accents of an undeniable darkness in this devastating show." @LeMondefr 30.11.24
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An upbeat spectacle which is slowly breaking apart, Signal to Noise summons a delirious late-night churn of fragments – dances, rehearsals, altercations, scenery changes and unexpected weather reports. 🎟️ theatregaronne.com/spectacle… ℹ️ forcedentertainment.com/proj…

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An upbeat spectacle which is slowly breaking apart, Signal to Noise summons a delirious late-night churn of fragments – dances, rehearsals, altercations, scenery changes and unexpected weather reports. 🎟️ theatregaronne.com/spectacle… ℹ️ forcedentertainment.com/proj…

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Shopping for Christmas? This is your last chance to treat yourself, or a friend to Things That Go through Your Mind When Falling - the definitive book about Forced Entertainment. Available at just £15 plus P&P until 30 Nov 🛍️Buy it here: forcedentertainment.com/shop…
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Edited by Adrian Heathfield Designed by David Caines Photography by Hugo Glendinning Performance texts by Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment
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Our next stop on the Signal to Noise Tour is at the Centre Pompidou as part of @festivaldautomne, “Forced Entertainment has always made stage art that is so present that it scratches at the edges of the future.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Book here: festival-automne.com/en/edit…
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#THEATRE #REVIEW Forced Entertainment: If All Else Fails @battersea_arts @ForcedEnts 'likely to cause discombobulation, disorientation, and profound feelings of existential despair' ⭐️⭐️⭐️ thereviewshub.com/forced-ent… #London
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Join @cathy_naden and @SekeChim for a Post-Show talk this Saturday after the afternoon performance of If All Else Fails @battersea_arts. ‘Cruel, comical game of repetition and reversal from Forced Entertainment’ ★★★★ The Stage
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To Move in Time is a dizzying monologue written by Tim Etchells for performer and collaborator Tyrone Huggins, in which an unnamed protagonist speculates playfully about what he’d do if he were able to travel backwards and forwards in time.
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See the show in Madrid for its Spanish premiere as part of @FestOtono 📆 21 & 22 Nov 🎫madrid.org/fo/2024/tomove.ht…

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