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Dateline: 26th January, 2003

News from Forced Entertainment

Forced Entertainment's new production The Voices appears in two versions at Prater Berlin and then at Warwick Arts Centre. The Company also appear at Tate Modern's first ever live art season Live Culture in March and present works at the New Territories festival in Glasgow during February.

2003 New Project : The Voices
A man fantasises about himself as a super-hero, a woman imagines how upset everyone will be by her death; another man imagines the life he'll lead as a rock-cum-rap star complete with big house, pool and all the girls he wants; a woman dreams up a scenario in which her ex-lover desperately misses her.

Based on a series of inventive, moving and comical stream-of-consciousness texts The Voices reveals its protagonists through their wishes and desires for the future. Taken together it's a portrait of contemporary aspiration and desires - from the predictable and the clichéd to the extraordinary and unexpected.

The Voices will be presented in two versions during Spring 2003. The first will be created specially for the stage at Berlin's Volksbühne studio Prater and performed by Forced Entertainment and invited guests. The second version will premiere at Warwick Arts Centre with Forced Entertainment and a cast of fifteen performers; a combination of guests and performers recruited from the local area.

The Voices has been devised and produced by Forced Entertainment, with Volksbühne Berlin and Warwick Arts Centre. Parts of the text by Tim Etchells were first developed for Crowd Scan, a radio play for BBC Radio 3's The Wire.

24 ­ 28 January & 9 ­ 13 April
Volksbühne, BERLIN Germany
+49 (0) 30 247 6772 / 247 7694
http://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de

5 March
Warwick Arts Centre, COVENTRY, UK
02476 524 524
http://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk

The Voices will also be performed in Sheffield and Glasgow during Autumn 2003.

Live Culture at Tate Modern
27 ­ 30 March 2003
Live Culture @ Tate Modern, LONDON
Telephone bookings: Tate ticketing 020 7887 8888
Online bookings: www.tate.org.uk

Live Culture is a four day programme of events considering the shifting nature of Live Art practice in relation to the visual arts. It brings together distinguished artists, theorists and curators to examine the expansion of performance art across broader artistic and social arenas, and its role in relation to cultural change.

Forced Entertainment will be participating in Live Culture with two of their durational pieces: 12am: Awake and Looking Down (28th March) and Quizoola! (29th March). Part of Forced Entertainment's contribution to Live Culture will also include a new series of photographs by Hugo Glendinning, a keynote address by Tim Etchells, and screenings of Video Works by Forced Entertainment.

For more information, go to the live culture website
http://www.liveartlondon.demon.co.uk/liveculture.html

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©Peter Lathan 2003