Performers:: Robin Arthur, Phil Hayes, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O’Connor / Direction:: Tim Etchells / Design:: Richard Lowdon / Lighting Design:: Nigel Edwards / Music:: Forced Entertainment / Music:: Phil Hayes / Music Consultant:: John Avery / Director's Assistant:: Hester Chillingworth / Production Management:: Ray Rennie and Jim Harrison
Forced Entertainment
The Coming Storm
- Theatre
English /
105 min
In this new work international innovators Forced Entertainment tangle and cross-cut multiple stories to make a compelling and unstable performance. From love and death to sex and laundry, from shipwrecks to falling snow, personal anecdotes rub shoulders with imaginary movies, and half-remembered novels bump into distorted fairytales. Using a method as inventive as it is absurd, six performers create, collaborate, ambush and disrupt this epic saga that is resolutely too big for the stage. The result is comical, contradictory and poignant; full of wrong- headed tricks, broken dances, sleazy drum interruptions and perfunctory piano accompaniment. Everything builds and everything shimmers. Everything teeters and everything trembles. Everything is reshaped and everything is cannibalised. "The Coming Storm" is Forced Entertainment at its best – trademark black humour, a collage of arresting images and an anarchic performance style.
Wed 06.03, following the performance
Artist Talk with Tim Etchells
www.forcedentertainment.com
@forcedents #thecomingstorm
Co-production: PACT Zollverein (Essen), Festival d'Avignon, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee (Zurich), Tanzquartier (Vienna), Les Spectacles Vivants - Centre Pompidou (Paris), Festival d’Automne à Paris, LIFT (London), Battersea Arts Centre (London), Sheffield City Council.
Cast
Dates
Past
Location
HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2. Tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons can also be booked via the ticketing system. If you need help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email to
tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.
Latest information for arrival:
There is currently a construction site on Hallesches Ufer between Wilhelmstraße and Möckernbrücke underground station. There is a divided replacement route for pedestrians (right) and cyclists (left), which are separated by a yellow ground line. The carriageway is narrowed to one lane.
Travelling to HAU2 via U Hallesches Tor:
If you are coming from Hallesches Tor underground station, you will have to use an alternative footpath from Wilhelmstraße / Hallesches Ufer junction, which is separated from the carriageway by a construction fence – the actual footpath is currently closed. Please note: the alternative route is also used by cyclists. Pedestrians should keep to the right. We therefore currently recommend that visually impaired or blind visitors come to the HAU with an accompanying person.
Arrival HAU2 via U Möckernbrücke:
When you leave Möckernbrücke underground station, please stay on the footpath on the canal side until you reach Hallesches Ufer / Großbeerenstraße junction – the opposite side is currently closed due to construction work.
