Forced Entertainment's Void Story in the Press

Forced Entertainment Artistic Director Tim Etchells talks to The Guardian about making this bleak and comical contemporary fable and about how this is the first time he has tackled telling a story from beginning to middle to end.

Etchells describes the evolution of the piece, from enacting the story using objects on a table top, to the idea of actors dragging dummies around the stage, to eventually settling on the more technological solution adopted in the piece. Etchells also speaks about how the pixellated images projected throughout Void Story were created, and the development of the sci-fi inspired text.

“The show – which began a UK tour last week that continues until late November – is a bleak but comic fable that follows its protagonists from post-apocalyptic housing estates to subterranean tunnels, psychotic funfairs and haunted hotels. It’s a story that, if you were to film it, would stretch the budget of a Hollywood studio, and one that from the get-go mounts a challenge to our sense of what’s possible on stage.”

Read the full article here

“Timely and timeless…engages the eye and ear as it lodges under your skin” The Times ****

“Original, intelligent and bleakly funny” The Guardian

Void Story comes to Warwick Arts Centre on Tue 1 & Wed 2 Nov. Book online or call the Box Office on 024 7652 4524.