Forced Entertainment: The Thrill Of It All

Tue 16 to Sat 20 November, 8pm. Tickets: £12/8/FREEACT
Booking: 0161 274 0600 / http://www.contact-theatre.org

It's bright under the lights, and hot, and frightening. Nine performers in grubby tuxedos and tarnished sequins play out a comical and disconcerting vaudeville to the strains of Japanese lounge music.

After the minimalism of Spectacular, internationally renowned theatre innovators Forced Entertainment return with a large cast of deranged dancing girls and derelict comedians. Dances turn into fights and jokes end in confusion as the show itself starts to unravel...

http://www.forcedentertainment.com

'Shockingly brilliant' The Guardian

Post show chat back on Thu 18 & Fri 19 November immediately after the show.

Co-producers Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Theatre Garonne (Toulouse) Les Spectacles vivants -- Centre Pompidou in collaboration with Festival d'Automne (Paris).

Forced Entertainment is regularly funded by Arts Council England. This production is supported by Sheffield City Council.

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Entertainment

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• Forced Entertainment
• The Thrill Of It All
• Contact
• Manchester
• Theatre

[shrapn0]

Saw this, and it was absolutely terrible.

[Ayapass]

The Music is 東京五輪音頭 Tokyo Gorin Ondo by Minami Haruo

[Cheeroholmes]

does anyone know what music they used exactly? artists?