Forced Entertainment (UK): Bloody Mess

A delinquent cheerleader dances and yells. A strobe light flickers, pointed at the ground. Rock-gig roadies. A woman in a gorilla suit. A sound check. An interview. A seductive monologue. A bloke starts to tell the history of the world but is quickly interrupted. A beautiful beautiful silence.

Forced Entertainment's Bloody Mess defies categorisation, creating a startling and comical new logic from the collisions of disconnected characters, stories and performances. Influenced by popular culture, cinema, contemporary art and the occasional dash of heavy metal, Bloody Mess takes these elements and creates a whole that is intelligent, darkly comic and unexpectedly moving.

Bloody Mess is Forced Entertainment at its best - uncompromising political Pop Art, ironic physically demanding camp trash, visual spectacle that tries to describe the modern world in all of its beauty, horror and complexity.

“A wonderfully playful theatrical game on the nature of illusion, narrative and laughter... It is ridiculously good.” THE GUARDAIN (UK)

“This is theatre turned inside out.” SUNDAY TIMES (UK)

“Britain’s finest experimental theatre company… at the top of their game. Bloody brilliant.”
CITY LIFE (UK) Winner of City Life’s Theatre Performance of the Year 2004

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In English with Hungarian subtitles!

STROBE LIGHT IS USED DURING THE PERFORMANCE!

Bloody Mess Forced Entertainment

Conceived and devised by the company Performers: Robin Arthur, Simone Aughterlony, Davis Freeman, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O’Connor, Bruno Roubicek, John Rowley Direction: Tim Etchells Text: Tim Etchells and the company Design: Richard Lowdon Lighting Design: Nigel Edwards Production: Francis Stevenson, Ray Rennie

Forced Entertainment General Manager: Matt Burman Administrator: Eileen Evans Marketing Manager: Rachel Thorne

Sponsored by: Republic of Art Supported by: British Council

Bloody Mess is co-produced by KunstenFESTIVALdesArts (Brussels), Les Spectacles vivants - Centre Pompidou (Paris), Wiener Festwochen, Festival THEATERFORMEN (Hannover) and Rotterdamse Schouwburg and supported by LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre) and Nuffield Theatre Lancaster. Work-in-progress performances were co-produced by SpielArt Festival (Munich).

Forced Entertainment is regularly funded by Arts Council England.