Forced Entertainment

Everything Must Go

Duration approx. 90 mins.

Language English 

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.

Cast

Conceived and devised by

Forced Entertainment

Director

Tim Etchells

Devised and performed by

Robin Arthur, Seke Chimutengwende, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O’Connor

Text, music composition and sound design

Tim Etchells

Stage design

Richard Lowdon

Production management

Jim Harrison

Producer

Eileen Evans

Further Information

Visitor note

Production: Forced Entertainment. Co-produktion: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Factory International (Manchester), Festival d’Avignon, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt am Main), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Spring Festival (Utrecht).
 

After the performance on the 28.3.:  Talk with Tim Etchells and Gob Squad / English

Price: 17–29 €, reduced 9–20 €

Dates of production

  • Mon 27.4.

    from 20:00 HAU2

  • Tue 28.4.

    from 19:00 HAU2

    Notes: After the performance: Talk with Tim Etchells and Gob Squad / English

  • Wed 29.4.

    from 20:00 HAU2

Location

HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin

There are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2.