Ruth Leon recommends… Table Top Shakespeare – Forced Entertainment 

Ruth Leon recommends… Table Top Shakespeare – Forced Entertainment 

Ruth Leon recommends

norman lebrecht

February 27, 2024

Table Top Shakespeare – Forced Entertainment 

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This project sounds completely mad but watching it is strangely compelling. For 40 years a company called Forced Entertainment

has been travelling the world telling the stories of Shakespeare plays.

A single actor, the storyteller, sits at a plain wooden table and illustrates his or her monologues with everyday articles such as sauce bottles and matchboxes.

​I know, I know, but just give it a chance. I couldn’t understand their description of what they did so I watched their version of my favourite play, Much Ado About Nothing, and became totally hooked on their bizarre method of performing Shakespeare.

To celebrate 40 years of tearing up the rulebook, Forced Entertainment wants to share their landmark project with online audiences. From today, anyone can stream any of these plays online for free. It’s weird but infinitely watchable.

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