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Forced Entertainment

March 2024

  • Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby at Birmingham Hippodrome.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Peaky Blinders, Prima Facie and more

    Our roundup of what to watch at home includes Rambert’s prequel to the hit TV series, Jodie Comer reprising the legal drama and Roald Dahl’s The Magic Finger

March 2023

  • Combining movement, theatre and standup … Wendy Houstoun in Watch It!

    No offence meant: Wendy Houstoun’s mild-mannered inquiry into outrage

    She performed with DV8 in the 80s before making solo work that defies categorisation – and Houstoun is as compelling as ever in her new show Watch It!

May 2020

  • Natural jokers … Forced Entertainment’s End Meeting for All

    Lockdown culture
    End Meeting for All review – brilliant and bewitching Zoom dramas

    Forced Entertainment improvise online conversations that cut to the confusion and frustrations of lockdown

October 2019

  • Out of Order by the Forced Entertainment Company

    Out of Order review – putting the boot into a world ruled by clowns

    Our era of buffoonish leadership is brilliantly skewered in Forced Entertainment’s mimed maelstrom of aggression

December 2018

  • The cast of That Night Follows Day

    That Night Follows Day review – adults' truths and lies, voiced by children

    Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment present a mesmeric show in which a young cast consider what grownups tell them

December 2017

  • Andrew Scott in Hamlet

    Best culture 2017
    Lyn Gardner's top 10 theatre of 2017

    Sarah Frankcom made Thorton Wilder’s small-town hymn Our Town sing in Manchester, a new British musical was full of feeling and Andrew Scott’s mercurial prince let us see Hamlet anew

January 2017

  • Kate Ashfield in Blasted, Andy Serkis in Mojo, Neal Pearson and Frances Barber in Closer.

    Theatre blog
    Beyond Blasted: how the 90s changed theatre in the UK

    The decade is still associated with the ‘In-Yer-Face’ moniker but it brought us a thrilling variety of new writing and fresh, boundary-breaking styles of theatre

September 2016

  • Tim Solo Tim Etchells from PR Tim Etchells, leader of Forced Entertainment

    Theatre Q&A
    Tim Etchells: ‘It’s not a utopian project. We argue a lot... that friction is important’

    The leader of the six-strong Forced Entertainment on performing 24-hour plays, winning an Ibsen award and why they want to help those starting out

June 2016

  • The Complete Deaths by Spymonkey and Tim Crouch

    Theatre blog
    Who needs fake blood? Eye-catching ways to play dead on stage

    Theatre has found all sorts of lively ways to represent death – it’s been done with butchered cabbages and even bright pink blancmange

March 2016

  • The Destroyed Room

    Theatre blog
    Plan your week’s theatre: top tickets

  • COMPLETE WORKS: TABLE TOP SHAKESPEARE by Forced Entertainment and part of Shakespeare 400 ; Claire Marshall ( Henry V ) ; at The Pit, Barbican Centre, London, UK ; 1 March 2016 ; Credit : Robert Piwko

    Theatre blog
    King John played by a potato masher? It's Shakespeare on a plate

February 2016

  • ‘We became obsessive about our casting’ … Claire Marshall performs tabletop Shakespeare.

    How we staged Shakespeare
    A cast of household names: The Taming of the Shrew retold with everyday items

    Claire Marshall of Forced Entertainment on her own tabletop version of Shakespeare’s play, in which the leads are played by a rose and a jar of mustard

June 2015

  • Kings of War

    Theatre blog
    Words, words, words: are we too in thrall to Shakespeare's language?

    Ivo van Hove’s Kings of War and Forced Entertainment’s Complete Works prove that a performance is about far more than the text
  • Forced Entertainment's Complete Works

    Forced Entertainment do Shakespeare: watch the live-stream

    The celebrated experimental theatre group Forced Entertainment retell Shakespeare’s plays – using household objects for characters
  • Forced Entertainment's Complete Works

    Wherefore art thou pepper pot? Shakespeare's plays retold with household objects

    Forced Entertainment are live-streaming table-top versions of the Bard’s complete works, with cutlery, cans and candlesticks as characters. If that sounds unpromising, then it fits the company’s ethos, says artistic director Tim Etchells

December 2014

  • The possible impossible house forced entertainment richard lowdon

    The Possible Impossible House review – a cerebral puzzle lacking in wonder

    Forced Entertainment’s first show for children is underplayed, so it is never quite thrilling or funny enough for its audience, writes Lyn Gardner
  • Lyn Gardner's top 10 shows of 2014 gardnertop10stage.jpg

    2014 in review
    Lyn Gardner’s top 10 theatre of 2014

    In the second of our top 10 lists, Lyn Gardner singles out The Father by Florian Zeller
  • Forced Entertainment's The Possible Impossible House

    Forced Entertainment’s first kids’ show looks good on paper

    Adult themes may be the company’s natural preserve, but The Possible Impossible House, created for children, works wonders with cardboard, writes Miriam Gillinson

October 2014

  • Speak Bitterness

    Watch Speak Bitterness by Forced Entertainment – live stream

  • Truth and reconciliation … Forced Entertainment's Speak Bitterness.

    Speak Bitterness: our catalogue of confessions

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