Image by Hugo Glendinning, courtesy of Forced Entertainment
Forced Entertainment
Forced Entertainment
Eclipse
Since 1984, the six artists that make up Forced Entertainment have, from their base in Sheffield, created ground-breaking provocative theatre pieces that have been toured and presented across the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world. The group have sustained a unique collaborative practice for more than thirty years, producing work that explores and often explodes the conventions of genre, narrative and theatre itself, drawing influence not just from drama but from dance, performance art, music culture and popular forms such as cabaret and stand-up.
Artistic director Dawn Walton founded theatre company Eclipse in 2010, with the aim of creating a more diverse theatrical landscape in the UK. Since then it’s become, according to The Guardian, “one of the UK’s foremost black-led theatre companies”. Eclipse brings overlooked plays to the stage – like A Raisin in the Sun, which it premiered at the Crucible in 2016 and toured around the country – and also creates new black British stories to enrich the canon.
The Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, S1 2BX / 0114 279 8977 forcedentertainment.com
The Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, S1 2BX / 0114 312 2249 eclipsetheatre.org.uk
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