Tim Etchells/Forced Entertainment: The Notebook, Speak Bitterness, and (In) Complete Works Table Top Shakespeare
February 18–27, 2016
For over 30 years, Forced Entertainment has made formative works that search for identity in a fractured, uncertain world. Based in Sheffield, England, and acclaimed internationally as one of the most important devised theater companies in the world, Forced Entertainment is a group of six artists who make theater and performance works, as well as installations, site-specific pieces, books, web projects, and more. Their artistic director, Tim Etchells, writes for and with the performance collective, and for his own print and online projects, and makes text-driven visual art.
The Notebook, February 18–19, 2016
Based on the award-winning novel by Agota Kristof and set during WWII, two actors take center stage to tell the stories of a pair of twin brothers are sent to their impoverished grandmother’s farm in order to find shelter from a country torn apart by conflict. The children are social outsiders, mavericks who survive and understand the world by harsh codes. As the war deepens, the brothers are slowly revealed as struggling moralists, trying to live by consistent principles in a Central Europe crumbling into cruelty and opportunism.
Speak Bitterness, February 20, 2016
Over a period of six hours Speak Bitterness shows a group of penitents whose enormous task it is to confess to everything. They are by turns cowed, breezy, anguished, reluctant, jovial, and—of course—determined. Occupying a brightly lit space, a group of performers behind a long table take turns competing to confess the most horrific, amusing, or convincing things—from crimes as serious as forgery, murder, or genocide to nasty little indiscretions, such as reading others’ diaries and not taking the dog out for a walk. Somewhere between a mad catalogue of human infamy and a strange and comical show-trial, this exhaustive work draws on the culture of confession in our society at large. The audience is free to arrive, leave, and return at any point.
(In) Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare, February 25–27, 2016
(In) Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare is co-presented with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.This winter, Chicago plays host to the largest global celebration of Shakespeare’s legacy: Shakespeare 400. The MCA and Tim Etchells/Forced Entertainment are proud to present (In) Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare, a selection of work by Shakespeare performed on a single table. These plays are taken from Complete Works—a marathon project in which every Shakespeare play was condensed to create a series of miniatures. Forced Entertainment matches the size and scale of these pieces, using a collection of everyday objects as characters and a tabletop as their stage.
In this program, specially created for the MCA, members of Forced Entertainment explore the dynamic force of narrative and storytelling through language alone, in simple and idiosyncratic performances of some of the Bard's most famous work.
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