A lone performer takes to the stage, explaining that the show we're watching is somehow different tonight. The atmosphere is different, his entrance was off, the lights are wrong, some scenery is missing, some performers are absent. The tone is all wrong. Things are somehow falling to pieces, or maybe things are just now falling into place. The audience reaction, our protagonist says, is not quite what he expected, not quite what he's used to. Perhaps the fact he is dressed as a skeleton has something to do with it. Spectacular is about the now of the performance moment, the trembling edge of laughter, possibility and invention. It's about death and playing dead, about the strange contact between two performers on-stage and an audience caught between what they are watching and what they're being told.
In development since last year with the core team of Forced Entertainment and following work in progress showings in Bergen, Spectacular has now found its final form and had its world premieres in Essen on 15 May as a show for two of the group's performers - Robin Arthur and Claire Marshall.
Simple, logical, absurd, impossible and humorous by turns, Spectacular is Forced Entertainment's provocative new work.
© Forced Entertainment 2008. Theatre performance.
In development since last year with the core team of Forced Entertainment and following work in progress showings in Bergen, Spectacular has now found its final form and had its world premieres in Essen on 15 May as a show for two of the group's performers - Robin Arthur and Claire Marshall.
Simple, logical, absurd, impossible and humorous by turns, Spectacular is Forced Entertainment's provocative new work.
© Forced Entertainment 2008. Theatre performance.
