Forced Entertainment: Complete Works - Table Top Shakespeare
Dec. 6—11, Royce Hall Stage
Forced Entertainment are a group of six artists who make work in theatre and performance from their base in Sheffield, England. Artistic Director Tim Etchells is an artist and a writer who has worked in a wide variety of contexts and in collaboration generating some of the most insightful new ground in current theater.
One by one, over 6 days, Forced Entertainment performers condense 36 Shakespeare plays into a series of works of less than an hour each, played out on a one meter tabletop — each play comically and intimately retold via a series of lovingly made miniatures and a collection of everyday unextraordinary objects.
Forced Entertainment have long had an obsession conjuring extraordinary scenes, images, and narratives using condensed language with precise implications. In this remarkable departure for the company, Complete Works explores the dynamic force of narrative in a simple and idiosyncratic summary of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, histories, and late plays — creating worlds as vivid as they are strange.
Event Dates: Dec. 6—11
Venue: Royce Hall Stage
Price: $49 ($25 for UCLA Faculty & Staff, $15 for UCLA Students)
Detailed information and links to purchse tickets for each show can be found below.
The Merchant of Venice + Richard II
Tuesday, Dec. 6, 5 p.m.
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Pericles + A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tuesday, Dec. 6, 8 p.m.
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Love's Labour's Lost + Henry IV (part 1)
Wedndays, Dec. 7, 5 p.m.
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Cymbeline + Macbeth
Wednesday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m.
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Titus Andonicus + Henry IV (part 2)
Thursday, Dec. 8, 5 p.m.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor + Othello
Thursday, Dec. 8, 8 p.m.
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Much Ado About Nothing + Henry V
Friday, Dec. 9, 5 p.m.
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The Winter's Tale + King Lear
Friday, Dec. 9, 8 p.m.
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Romeo and Juliet + Henry VI (Part 1) + All's Well That Ends Well
Saturday, Dec. 10, 11 a.m.
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Timon of Athens + Twelfth Night + Antony and Cleaopatra
Saturday, Dec. 10, 3 p.m.
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Henry VI (Part 2) + Two Gentlemen of Verona + Julius Caesar + Hamlet
Saturday, Dec. 10, 7 p.m.
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Corialanus + Henry VI (Part 3) + The Taming of the Shrew
Sunday, Dec. 11, 11 a.m.
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King John + As You Like It + Troilus and Cressida
Sunday, Dec. 11, 3 p.m.
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Richard III + The Comedy of Errors + Measure for Measure + The Tempest
Sunday, Dec. 11, 7 p.m.
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