Dirty Work (The Late Shift)
Description
In Dirty Work (The Late Shift) two performers conjure an extraordinary performance in a collaborative and competitive act of description. From vast explosions to dancing chorus lines with daily life, political interludes, epic drama and cabaret turns in between, no event or image is unstageable for the protagonists, whose game of virtual theatre escalates to take the audience on a roller coaster ride.
Developed from Forced Entertainment’s 1998 performance Dirty Work their new piece Dirty Work (The Late Shift) is a provocative and intimate celebration of the power of language to make things happen. Accompanied by the sound of piano on a battered record player, it explores and exposes the world we live in where real life is so often presented as spectacle. As the evening unfolds the simple deceptively simple form of described events enlists the audience’s imaginative help to fill the stage with a delirium of images, scenes and events in bewildering succession.
★★★★ "proving the imagination is a powerful tool”- The Guardian
★★★★ “the experience is utterly absorbing”- The Stage
A Forced Entertainment production. Co-produced by PACT Zollverein Essen and HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin.
Forced Entertainment are on a roll. The company's won some of the biggest awards in world theatre of late. The Spalding Gray Prize last year, then the Ibsen award, and now selection for Theatertreffen, German theatre's 'best of' festival. It's a rare feat for British artists, and richly deserved.
