Coventry’s Warwick Arts Centre is opening its 40th anniversary season with the UK première of Forced Entertainment and Tarek Atoui's The Last Adventures.
Forced Entertainment is collaborating 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 home-made costumes create a pageant of giant sea monsters, ghosts, fighting kings, marching robots and dancing trees.
“Before our eyes, Forced Entertainment transforms 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.”
Forced Entertainment artistic director Tim Etchells directs a cast of 12 international performers. There will be a recorded soundtrack from Atoui and live instrumentation from guest musician K K Null.
The Last Adventures runs at Warwick Arts Centre from Wednesday until Friday and is part of Fierce, an international festival of live art centred in Birmingham. The festival embraces theatre, dance and music.
Forced Entertainment has been a mainstay of Warwick Arts Centre’s programme for nearly three decades.