DCSIMG TOMORROW’S PARTIES ARTIST OF THE CITY 2014

TOMORROW’S PARTIES

FORCED ENTERTAINMENT

9TH, 10TH AND 11TH JANUARY
TEATRO  MARIA MATOS
Thursday To Saturday, at 9,30 PM
Presentation in English with Portuguese Subtitles, Duration 1h20
Tickets 14€ to 7€; Under 30 – 5€
 

 

“Unbearably sad yet absurdly optimistic.” ★★★★ The Guardian
“A kind of speculative and imaginative storytelling, beautiful, luminous, and infinitely thoughtful.” ★★★★ The Scotsman
“Exquisitely crafted, humorous yet never facile… Tomorrow’s Parties haunts the thoughts: outstanding.” ★★★★ The Herald

Forced Entertainment’s latest performance imagines a multitude of hypothetical futures. On a makeshift fairground stage, wreathed in coloured lights, two performers speculate about what tomorrow might bring. Exploring utopian and dystopian visions, science fiction scenarios, political nightmares and absurd fantasies, the audience is carried along on a flowing tide of dreams and conjecture. Sometimes collaborative, sometimes competitive the two performers exaggerate, contradict and invent, as their playful suppositions take them in different directions. Tomorrow’s Parties is Forced Entertainment in intimate and comical mode – a playful, poignant and at times delirious look forwards to futures both possible and impossible.

Conceived and devised by Forced Entertainment — Robin Arthur, Tim Etchells, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden e Terry O’Connor
Performers (Lisboa Lisbon) Forced Entertainment – Cathy Naden, Robin Arthur
Direction Tim Etchells
Design Richard Lowdon
 Lighting Design Francis Stevenson
Production Ray Rennie and Jim Harrison
Co-production Belluard Bollwerk International (com a contribuição do Cantão de Friburgo para a Cultura), Teatergarasjen, Internationales Sommerfestival, Kaaitheater, Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee e Sheffield City Council
Support Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation
Forced Entertainment is supported by Arts Council England