Quizoola!
Quizoola! (1996) was a theatre production by Forced Entertainment. It was performed at BIT Teatergarasjen in connection with the festival Kontekst '98.
Quizoola! was originally commissioned by Lois Keidan and Catherine Ugwu at ICA Live Arts (London) and National Review Of Live Art (Glasgow).
Information
(Objekt ID 24596)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | 1996 |
| Produced by | Forced Entertainment |
| Audience | Adults |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | Theatre, Durational performance |
| Running period | 1996 |
| Duration | 6 hours |
| Website | forced entertainment |
Requirements to venue
| Blackout | No |
In BIT Teatergarasjen's autumn program 1998 the following is written about Quizoola!:
"The British company Forced Entertainment illuminates the madness of modern day. Forced Entertainment is ambivalent until the last line, but painfully memorable. Quizoola! is intimate and honest, a challenging and provoking piece addressing the dreams and nightmares in modern urban life. It's about cities and identity, media and urban myths. In Quizoola!, the audience is in the same small space as the performers - in a performance filled with questions and answers. The piece draws from marketing surveys, interrogations, exchanges between lovers, trivial questions and factual quizzes. The text moves continuously - but abruptly - from one area to another. The performance lasts for four to six hours, and the audience may come and go as they please."
Onstage are three performers made up as clowns. In turn they choose questions to answer. Quizoola! has been performed many times with many different performers onstage.
SOURCES:
BIT Teatergarasjen, season program the autumn of 1998.
Forced Entertainment, forcedentertainment.com, 13.11.2011, http://www.forcedentertainment.com/page/145/Quizoola/97#-description
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Tim Etchells | – Text |
| Richard Lowdon | – Stage design |
| Richard Lowdon | – Lighting design |
| Robin Arthur | – Actor |
| Kent Beeson | – Actor |
| Tim Etchells | – Actor |
| Mark Etchells | – Actor |
| Jim Fletcher | – Actor |
| Tim Hall | – Actor |
| Jerry Killick | – Actor |
| Joe Lawlor | – Actor |
| Richard Lowdon | – Actor |
| Claire Marshall | – Actor |
| Sue Marshall | – Actor |
| Sue Marshall | – Actor |
| Ursula Martinez | – Actor |
| Christine Molloy | – Actor |
| Cathy Naden | – Actor |
| Sophia New | – Actor |
| Terry O'Connor | – Actor |
| Dan B. Rogers | – Actor |
| Bruno Roubicek | – Actor |
| Bruno Roubicek | – Actor |
| John Rowley | – Actor |
| September 19, 1998 21:00 – BIT Teatergarasjen | Show |
| 1996 | Worldwide premiere |