Forced Entertainment
Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare: At Home - Henry IV Part 1

  • Fri 09.10.20 21 h

Free admission

Duration: 50 Min
In English with subtitles
YouTube stream

Catch up on all videos via the YouTube-playlist
Please um dieses Video anzusehen.

By accessing the video, you agree that your data will be transmitted to third-party providers (e.g., YouTube / Vimeo). Our privacy policy contains further information about this.

Accept and load video

»While you live, tell truth and shame the devil!«

King Henry IV fights off a growing rebellion while his son Prince Hal indulges in physical pleasures and spends his time in drinking establishments where he makes the acquaintance of the impoverished knight Falstaff and other shady characters with nothing good in mind.

»A salt and pepper pot for the king and queen. A ruler for the prince. A spoon for the servant. Lighter fluid for the Innkeeper. A water bottle for the messenger.«

36 plays in 36 nights. The idea behind ›Complete works: Table Top Shakespeare‹, with which Forced Entertainment has delighted over 35,000 people in 12 countries since its premiere in 2015, is as simple as it is ingenious. Six performers bring every play ever written by Shakespeare to life using only a collection of ordinary everyday objects as stand-ins for the characters on the one metre stage of a table top.

Fast-forwarding to 2020 and the Coronavirus epidemic, especially with its necessities of social distancing, lockdowns and quarantines, Forced Entertainment find themselves at home, like much of the rest of the world and are set to restage the project online in ›Table Top Shakespeare: At Home Edition‹.

For 36 nights, spread out over 9 weeks from 17th September, PACT will be broadcasting the plays direct from the kitchen tables of the performers, each of them currently isolated in different places including Sheffield, London and Berlin. Each play will be preceded by a short performer introduction.

Post-Show Discussions: Each Sunday the performers from that week will host a Zoom Q&A. To register simply email feaftertalks@gmail.com with the date of the post-show discussion you'd like to join. 

08/10  Richard II  
Performance: Terry O’Connor

09/10  Henry IV Part 1  
Performance: Jerry Killick

10/10  Henry IV Part 2  
Performance: Jerry Killick

11/10  Henry V  
Performance: Claire Marshall + Post-show discussion 

For all the dates see the programme overview

›Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare: At Home‹ is financially supported by the following partners: PACT Zollverein (Essen); Kanuti Gildi, Püha Vaimu SAAL (Tallinn); Kunstfestspiele Hannover; Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt / Main); Romaeuropa Festival (Rom); Shakespeare Festival Neuss; Center for the Art of Performance, UCLA (Los Angeles); The Mondavi Center, UC Davis; Stanford Live at Stanford University; UC Santa Barbara. Also presented as part of the ›Time-Based Art Festival 2020‹, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and Temporada Alta 2020.

Conceived and devised by Forced Entertainment Performance: Robin Arthur, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O’Connor Director: Tim Etchells Text: Robin Arthur, Tim Etchells, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O’Connor Technical: Jim Harrison

www.forcedentertainment.com

More Events
  • Thu 07.03.24 18 h – 21 h
  • Thu 04.04.24 18 h – 21 h
  • Thu 02.05.24 18 h – 21 h
  • Fri 05.04.24 18 h

ATELIER No. 69
Experimental platform for the arts