Forced Entertainment, Tarek Atoui

In The Last Adventures, Forced Entertainment collaborate with Lebanese sound artist Tarek Atoui to create a compelling performance on an epic scale. Sounds swarm and storm in the air as performers in homemade costumes create a pageant of giant sea monsters, ghosts, fighting kings, marching robots and dancing trees. Before our eyes Forced Entertainment transform a haunted forest into a sky of portentous clouds, or the aftermath of a terrible war. Here and there recognisable characters surface from the chaos in strange juxtapositions, emerging onstage from the ruins of familiar stories, only to disappear in the very next moment.

Working with a cast of twelve, artistic director Tim Etchells leads Forced Entertainment into challenging new territory. With soundtrack mixing electronics and live instrumentation, The Last Adventures is an intoxicating audio experience mixing fairy tales, science fiction, children’s picture books and epic myths.

Recommended age: 16 and over.