Everything Must Go

The world has gone wrong: the economy has collapsed, and our civilisation is nothing but ruins. Nature has taken over again, covering even roads and motorways. Late at night, what remains of humanity kills time in a fantastical bar, which transforms as conversations unfold. 

With Everything Must Go, Forced Entertainment create a visual performance in which actors lend their bodies and voices to texts generated and recorded by artificial intelligence. On stage, they synchronise their own words with those recordings, creating a slight gap between body and voice. A troubling choice, which highlights the presence of the body and questions what remains of human desire when confronted with voices produced by machines. 

Director Tim Etchells
Devised and performed by Robin Arthur, Seke Chimutengwende, Richard Lowdon, Claire
Marshall, Cathy Naden & Terry O’Connor
Text, Music Composition and Sound Design Tim Etchells
Lighting Design Nigel Edwards
Stage Design Richard Lowdon
Videography Tim Etchells & Hugo Glendinning
Production Management Jim Harrison
Producer Eileen Evans

Co-produced by Factory International (Manchester), Festival d’Avignon, HAU Hebbel An Ufer (Berlin), Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt am Main), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Spring Festival (Utrecht).
Support for the 80th Festival d'Avignon : British council
Forced Entertainment is an Arts Council England National Portfolio organisation.

Performances in partnership with France Médias Monde