The Coming Storm

Forced Entertainment

UK Premiere - Part of LIFT Festival and the London 2012 Festival
International innovators Forced Entertainment present the UK premiere of their latest show. Employing devices from puppet theatre, song and naive dance, they tell an epic story that is resolutely too big for the stage. In a style as inventive as it is absurd, wrong-headed theatrical tricks take their place alongside an increasingly preposterous narrative, and for the first time in the Forced Entertainment’s work, live music.
This darkly comic and haunting tale promises to explode audience expectations.

“Confounding conventions and exploding audience expectations.” The Times

“Shockingly Brilliant.” The Guardian

“Theatre turned inside out.” Sunday Times

Age recommendation – 16+

Co-producers: PACT Zollverein, Essen; Festival Avignon; Theaterhaus Gessneralle, Zurich; Tanzquartier, Vienna; Les Spectacles Vivants - Centre Pompidou, Paris; Festival d'Automne à Paris; LIFT, London; BAC, London; Sheffield City Council.

Photo credit: Hugo Glendinning