Exquisite Pain

Exquisite Pain by Forced Entertainment (England) is a simple and intimate performance about remembering and forgetting, love, loss and the stories we tell ourselves when things have gone wrong. Exquisite Pain is based on a project by renowned French conceptual artist Sophie Calle.

Information

(Objekt ID 3824)
Object type Production
Premiere 2005
Produced by Forced Entertainment
Coproducers Theatre of the World, BIT Teatergarasjen, , , , Tanzquartier Wien
Language English
Keywords Theatre, Post-dramatic theatre, Performance
Running period 2005  
Website forced entertainment

Requirements to venue

Blackout No
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Forced Entertainment explores how the forces of language, memory and forgetting move to contain, preserve or erase events and how as a person one comes to terms with trauma.

"I decided to continue... until I had got over my pain by comparing it with other people's, or had worn out my own story through sheer repetition."

Source:

BIT Teatergarasjen, Meteor 2007. 07.09.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no -archive

Contributors (10)
Name Role
Sophie Calle – Text
Tim Etchells – Direction
Richard Lowdon – Stage design
Nigel Edwards – Lighting design
Robin Arthur – Actor
Jerry Killick – Actor
Richard Lowdon – Actor
Claire Marshall – Actor
Cathy Naden – Actor
Terry O'Connor – Actor
Performance dates
October 13, 2007 21:00 – BIT Teatergarasjen, Norsk Dramatikk Show
August 20, 2005Nasjonalgalleriet, Nasjonalmuseet Show
August 19, 2005Nasjonalgalleriet, Nasjonalmuseet National premiere, Norway
2005 Worldwide premiere
Festivals (2)
METEOR October 13, 2007
Kiss the Frog! The art of transformation August 19, 2005
Press coverage

“The marriage of Calle’s text with Tim Etchell’s minimalist, utterly uncompromising production is heaven-sent ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough.” Guardian Review