Forced Entertainment are a British theatre company who are based in Sheffield. Their work is heavily postmodernist and abstract. I have watched many clips of their performances and read about their work on their website: https://www.forcedentertainment.com/about/

• Their performances explore the contemporary world.
• Their performances take on many different forms including site-specific and interactive formats, for which an actor in this company would need to be able to adapt their performance style.
• This means that the formations of their performances are not restricted to the sole use of proscenium arch which has become the most dominant layout for storytelling in the theatre.
• Their work can create ‘confusion, silence, questions and laughter” all of which is attributable to the postmodernist theatre style.
• A lot of their work comes from improvisation.
• A clip from Forced Entertainment’s The Notebook (2014) https://youtu.be/q_7cPLXzklA
• The stage in minimalist and almost empty of any setting bar two chairs, this goes against naturalism and will act to prevent naturalistic acting. In terms of acting, in this piece the performers speak in third person. They are quite clearly talking about themselves, but instead of acting out the story they act as the narrators speaking from the notebooks they hold. This dismisses naturalism and is more abstract in style of acting.