Forced Entertainment Announces UK Tour Dates

International Ibsen Award-winners Forced Entertainment, who return to London next week to present the UK premiere of Dirty Work (The Late Shift), have today announced UK tour dates for 2017. The company will present their acclaimed new production, Real Magic, at venues across the UK including: Edinburgh International Festival, Cambridge Junction, Platform Theatre, King's Cross London, mac Birmingham and Manchester's HOME between August and December 2017.

Real Magic creates a world of absurd disconnection, struggle and comical repetition. To the sound of looped applause and canned laughter, a group of performers take part in an impossible illusion - part mind-reading feat, part cabaret act, part chaotic game show - in which they endlessly revisit moments of defeat, hope and anticipation. Caught in a world of second-chances and second-guesses, variations and changes, distortions and transformations, Real Magic takes you on a hallucinatory journey, creating a compelling performance about optimism, individual agency and the desire for change.

Next week from 27 June to 1 July at Battersea Arts Centre the company present Dirty Work (The Late Shift). The show sees us return to our original 1998 piece, Dirty Work, delving deeper into the disturbing and comical world we established 19 years ago. To the sound of a piano on a battered old record player, our two protagonists conjure an extraordinary performance in a collaborative and competitive act of description, co-opting the imaginative capacities of the audience to fill the stage with images, scenes and events in bewildering and unnerving succession. No event is too large and no image unstageable for this compelling performance

Dirty Work (The Late Shift) is a Forced Entertainment production. Co-produced by PACT Zollverein Essen and HAU Hebbel Am Ufer Berlin.

Forced Entertainment have been making ground-breaking work together since 1984, based in Sheffield they present work across the globe.

Photo credit: Hugo Glendinning