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• Performance + Audience Talk
• present
• babbel
• experimental

• Di., 28.04.2026, 20:00

Audience Talk following 'Everything Must Go'

With 'Everything Must Go', the pioneers of British experimental theatre follow up on their work “Signal to Noise,” which was also co-produced by and performed at HAU two years ago. After the performance, there will be a discussion between Tim Etchells (director) and Gob Squad.

• 1Foto ©Tim Etchells. Late night in a bar that doesn’t really exist, dreams, tears, drinks and words are overflowing.

Tim Etchells and the group transform everyday speech into a subversive, Dadaist poetics that is both funny and angry: disembodied, algorithmic articulations meet lively, sweating bodies until language turns into movement and figures and stories flash out of the babble of voices. As a result, people are talking in circles and the circles always, without question, come back to the same place. Here.Following the performance, there will be a discussion between Tim Etchells and Gob Squad in English.

About the Venue

HAU Hebbel am Ufer

HAU Hebbel am Ufer, with its three venues HAU1, HAU2 und HAU3 and the digital stage HAU4 is a paragon of current artistic positions at the interface of theatre, dance and performance. In addition, music, visual art and theoretical debates are a constant component of the wide-ranging programme.

About the piece

Everything Must Go

Forced Entertainment create a shimmering, physical-visual portrait of our present: the economy on the brink of collapse, cities in ruins, broken hearts, missed opportunities – something went wrong out there.  With 'Everything Must Go', the pioneers of British experimental theatre follow up on their work “Signal to Noise,” which was also co-produced by and performed at HAU two years ago – and at the same time conclude the final part of their loose trilogy, which works with AI voices and lip sync. Tim Etchells is an artist and a writer based in the UK whose work shifts between performance, visual art and fiction. Etchells has worked in a wide variety of contexts, notably as the leader of the world-renowned Sheffield-based performance group Forced Entertainment.

About the Artists

Forced Entertainment

Since forming the company in 1984, the six core members of the group have sustained a unique artistic partnership for quarter of a century, confirming time and again their position as trailblazers in contemporary theatre. The company's substantial canon of work reflects an interest in the mechanics of performance, the role of the audience and the machinations of contemporary urban life. The work – framed and focused by Artistic Director Tim Etchells - is distinctive and provocative, delighting in disrupting the conventions of theatre and the expectations of audiences. Forced Entertainment's trademark collaborative process – devising work as a group through improvisation, experimentation and debate – has made them pioneers of British avant-garde theatre and earned them an unparalleled international reputation.