Quizoola!

Extraordinary, near-unclassifiable production

- Karen Fricker, The Irish Times

The work we make is always a kind of conversation or negotiation. We're interested in making performances that excite, frustrate, challenge, question and entertain. We're interested in confusion as well as laughter.

- Forced Entertainment

Quizoola! is a game of questions and answers - sometimes low comedy, sometimes harsh interrogation - which soon takes on its own life. Six hours of improvisation in front of an audience, the members of which can enter and leave at will. 2,000 muttered and/or shouted questions. A live negotiation on what is real and what is acted, on what questions to ask and how to answer them. Absurd, intimate, amusing and obscure, they explore our need to know, to be sure, to define ourselves through language. Anarchic energy on a human scale, a long way from the common stylistic excesses of the theatre. The questions can also be made up as the production goes along. And the answers, of course, are not written down.

Was John Wayne really brave?
Are you a natural blonde?
Why are people afraid to die?
What is a tree?

Forced Entertainment consists of a unique artistic association which, since 1984, has been producing a range of theatre, performance, digital media, video and installation projects. Innovative in form and subversive in content, its most recent work has explored ideas of identity, language, theatricality, love, cities and memories. It has also taken on projects for specific locations, books, photographic collaborations and bus tours as well as uninterrupted performances lasting from six to 24 hours. The company is based in Sheffield, England, but performs its works all over the world. Void Story, Spectacular, The World in Pictures, Exquisite Pain and Bloody Mess are some of their more recent productions.

Quizoola! was originally co-commissioned by the NRLA (National Review of Live Art) and ICA Live Arts.

www.forcedentertainment.com