Lancaster Arts welcomes Forced Entertainment back to the Nuffield Theatre to celebrate their 40th anniversary year, having regularly performed here since 1985.
Signal to Noise summons a delirious late-night churn of fragments – dances, rehearsals, altercations, scenery changes and unexpected weather reports. AI voices are enlisted to perform the text - their unreal chatter and patter mixing interior monologues, unfinished jokes and off-topic interviews. The six performers lip-sync all the voices, sometimes carefully, sometimes with unhelpful abandon, bringing life to these disembodied, never-bodied speakers. It all sounds right, more or less human, more or less real. What could go wrong? There seems to be a problem, a problem with the connection…
Tim Etchells' musical score mixes everything from filmic atmospheres to slowed instrumentation and birdsong, but as ever with the company, the performers are the heart of the work - animating it with the energy and inventiveness that Forced Entertainment have made their calling card.
“Difficult, funny, cheeky, melancholy……absurd, charming and witty.”
Nachtkritik (web magazine), Sarah Heppekausen
”Not one of these 90 minutes is dull.“
Frankfurter Rundschau
Image Credit: Hugo Glendinning
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