Real Magic
Forced Entertainment's new performance Real Magic creates a world of absurd disconnection, struggle and comical repetition. To the sound of looped applause and canned laughter a group of performers take part in an impossible illusion - part mind-reading feat, part cabaret act, part chaotic game-show. Playing the same scene repeatedly, in a series of variations, changes, distortions and transformations Real Magic takes the audience on a hallucinatory journey, creating a compelling performance about optimism, individual agency and the desire for change.
Forced Entertainment is the recipient of the International Ibsen Award 2016 in recognition of theatre as a collective art form and of the theatre’s importance within society. As the first ever group to win the prize, we are honoured to join a distinguished list of previous winners including Peter Brook, Heiner Goebbels, Ariane Mnouchkine Jon Fosse and Peter Handke. The award ceremony will take place during the International Ibsen Festival in September 2016, at the National Theatre in Oslo, where we will showcase a range of our work.
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