Since 2016 the British theatre collective Forced Entertainment brings the complete works of Shakespeare onto the stage and presented them to more than 35,0000 people., including Mousonturm in 2018. After having spent weeks separated by the recent lockdown, Forced Entertainment came up with the idea of replaying all the dramas once more as a nine-week online series using whatever was already in their own kitchens. Whether “Macbeth” (17.09.), “Romeo and Julia” (24.09.) or „King John“ (25.09.), all are performed with a full miniature cast in table top-format starring water bottle, razor blade and pillbox.
29.10. Twelfth Night or What You Will: Jerry Killick
But what do you want? Cesario loves Orsino. Orsino loves Olivia. Olivia loves Cesario. But Cesario isn’t really Cesario: she’s Viola.
30.10. Cymbeline: Terry O’Connor
Never heard of it?! A complex piece with those perennial favourites; faith, love and jealousy – only much crazier, which may be why hardly anyone dares direct it.
31.10. Julius Caesar: Robin Arthur
Total Rome: wicked, treacherous, murderous. Oh yes, and you too, Brutus.
01.11. Antony and Cleopatra: Cathy Naden
Romeo and Juliet, the grown-up version: they too fall in love, are thwarted and die of despair. Not because of Caesar.
Infos
From the age of 15
Duration: 50 Min
Language: modern English
Livestream via FE-Youtube-Channel, afterwards available
On 01.11. artist talk afterwards on Zoom, information on registration follows
Streaming at Mousonturm Studio 1 doesn’t take place.
Sponsors and Supporters
Konzept: Forced Entertainment
Performance: Robin Arthur, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O’Connor
Regie: Tim Etchells
Text: Robin Arthur, Tim Etchells, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O’Connor
Technische Umsetzung: Jim Harrison
A production by Forced Entertainment, financially supported by the following partners: Künstlerhaus Mousonturm; Kanuti Gildi SAAL; Kunstfestspiele Hannover; The Mondavi Center, UC Davis; PACT Zollverein; Romaeuropa Festival; Shakespeare Festival Neuss; Stanford Live at Stanford University; UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance and UC Santa Barbara. Also presented as part of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s 2020 Time-Based Art Festival.
As part of „DMT-Digitaler Mousonturm“ supported within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Funded by the Hessen State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts as part of the intergenerational outreach initiative ALL IN – FOR AUDIENCES OF ALL AGES.
