Sunday 8 March 2009

Forced Entertainment: Spectacular

Friday 6 March, Arnolfini


This is a brilliant show - laugh-out-loud funny, disconcerting, and weirdly moving. Beautifully written and exquisitely performed. As the Venue Magazine review says of the show:

"Forced Entertainment continue to ask a lot of their audiences, giving what amounts to a smattering of clues towards a performance; and if you're willing to suspend your disbelief in new and interesting ways, their work is some of the most affecting you'll ever see. You know it's a shame, by definition - but at the end of the evening, you're left shaken by echoes of a show you never witness. It's truly refreshing and wonderful"

Seek it out. It's one of those wonderful shows that doesn't shout at you. It draws you in and makes you listen because of its tone and quality rather than its volume.

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