 | Forced Entertainment (GB)
Void Story
Tickets | 11% photography
18% Science Fiction
60% stories
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A flight through a disconcertingly hostile world, ominous, foggy, rainy. Through horrific urban landscapes and tunnel systems full of brutal children, nasty gangsters, scheming hotel managers, underhanded circus artistes and melancholy ghosts. In “Void Story” the legendary British theatre company Forced Entertainment – whose artistic director and author Tim Etchells brought “That Night Follows Day” to steirischer herbst, a play performed by children for adults – tells a dark, black-humoured and always ambiguous photographic science-fiction story: A couple suddenly thrown out of their flat and their accustomed life flees through a world that feels like a computer game: level follows level, but there is no way out, no winner – and no next try at winning. A journey into the night, so dark that no stars can be seen.
Forced Entertainment perform Etchells’ creepy contemporary fable like a radio play, sitting at tables, leafing through the script while imitating prop sounds, changing their voices for different roles at the microphones and playing back sound effects for gunshots, rain and poor phone connections. The storyboard for a film that cannot really be made flickers atop the otherwise empty stage. Between live dialogues, recorded sounds and collaged images a story evolves that seems so totally distant and yet comes closer to us than we might think.
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Forced Entertainment (GB) 
Produced by Forced Entertainment
With support from Tanzquartier Wien & Tate Media
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Austrian Première
Fr 02/10, Sa 03/10 &
So 04/10, 7.30 pm
85’
In english language
Talk following the second performance
Do 01/10, 9.30 pm
DJing with Gary Winters / Lone Twin & Richard Lowdon / Forced Entertainment
EUR 22 / EUR 12
Festival centre
By Forced Entertainment
Text, Pictures & Direction Tim Etchells
With Robin Arthur, Richard Lowdon, Cathy Naden & Terry O’Connor
Design Richard Lowdon
Sound & Music John Avery
Light Nigel Edwards
Production Graz Dominik Jutz
Assistance Christian Sundl
Austrian Première
Fr 02/10, Sa 03/10 &
So 04/10, 7.30 pm
85’
In english language
Talk following the second performance
Do 01/10, 9.30 pm
DJing with Gary Winters / Lone Twin & Richard Lowdon / Forced Entertainment
EUR 22 / EUR 12
Festival centreBy Forced Entertainment
Text, Pictures & Direction Tim Etchells
With Robin Arthur, Richard Lowdon, Cathy Naden & Terry O’Connor
Design Richard Lowdon
Sound & Music John Avery
Light Nigel Edwards
Production Graz Dominik Jutz
Assistance Christian Sundl
