Southbank Centre / Purcell Room Fri 9 & Sat 10 Oct Tickets: forcedentertainment.com

With original text and sound by Tim Etchells, performed by Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall and Terry O'Connor. Described by BroadwayWorld as "a virtuoso, absurd, and poetic theatre experience."

The figures onstage are channelling confusion, looping their way through speeches that shift between heartfelt confession and the familiar rhythms of cliché. Through the layers of irony, through the walls of borrowed sound, through the mask of performance — something real is trying to emerge.

COLD SWEAT @southbankcentre.bsky.social  Cold Sweat sees Forced Entertainment return to the lip-syncing mode of Signal to Noise — three performers syncing their bodies to AI-generated voices, creating a collision between the human and the synthetic that is by turns comical, tender and unsettling.

COLD SWEAT. UK PREMIERE. NEXT WEEK. After Paris and Stockholm, the delirious AI party-piece lands in the UK for the first time. Music loops. Voices that are not quite human. A room you might not want to leave. 📍 Sheffield Theatres / Open Works Festival 📅 2–3 Oct 🎫 forcedentertainment.com

Selected Works: Table Top Shakespeare arrives at Sydney Opera House this week. Shakespeare's most gripping stories told on a 1m tabletop with household objects playing all the parts. Tickets form the venue.

It is rare territory for Forced Entertainment: a company known for durational, experimental work tackling classic dramatic texts in miniature. Tim Etchells talks about the project in a short video on our website. 22-27 Sep. The Studio, Sydney Opera House.

Table Top Shakespeare opens this week at Sydney Opera House. For six nights in The Studio, Claire Marshall and Richard Lowdon perform selected double bills from our Complete Works project — all thirty-six of Shakespeare's plays, retold from memory using everyday objects on a one-metre table.

Selected Works: Table Top Shakespeare opens later this month at Sydney Opera House. Claire Marshall and Richard Lowdon perform Shakespeare, retold from memory, with relish (and the occasional marmalade jar). 22-27 Sep. The Studio, Sydney Opera House.

Seke Chimutengwende's The Last Quartet premieres at The Place, London, 24-26 September. Four dancers. No fixed sequences. No fixed order. A last attempt at choreography, inspired by T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. With Jamie McCarthy. 🎟️ theplace.org.uk/events/autumn-winter-26-the-last-quartet/

Tour details at forcedentertainment.com 📖 Full interview:

COLD SWEAT — Sheffield, Lancasterr  + London, Oct EVERYTHING MUST GO — Antwerp, Oct SELECTED WORKS: TABLE TOP SHAKESPEARE — Sydney + South Yorkshire, Sep-Nov

As Tim Etchells says: "I'm frankly quite frightened by AI... I fear what it does to us as human, social, and political animals. At this moment of global crisis, we need human vectors—people with skin in the game."

Three shows, one company. From AI-driven lip-sync to tabletop Shakespeare, we're touring our full range of work to this Autumn.

Tour details at forcedentertainment.com 📖 Full interview:

COLD SWEAT — Sheffield + London, Oct EVERYTHING MUST GO — Antwerp, Oct SELECTED WORKS: TABLE TOP SHAKESPEARE — Sydney + South Yorkshire, Sep-Nov

As Tim Etchells says: "I'm frankly quite frightened by AI... I fear what it does to us as human, social, and political animals. At this moment of global crisis, we need human vectors—people with skin in the game."

Three shows, one company. From AI-driven lip-sync to tabletop Shakespeare, we're touring our full range of work to this Autumn.