Event Details

Join us in the Nuffield Theatre as creative forces combine in L’Addition, a hilarious and absurd collaboration between Forced Entertainment’s Tim Etchells and performance duo Bert and Nasi.

Two performers armed with (or trapped in) a single scene – a customer orders a drink from a waiter. And then things go awry. Played again and again, the scene starts spinning out of control. Nightmarish spiral or grotesque farce? Roles flip back and forth. Who's serving and who's being served?

L’Addition orchestrates a complex, hilarious and explosive performance from simple materials. Together, the three of them play with the mechanisms of theatre as much as with power relationships — but in the end, someone has to pay the bill.

Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas are a contemporary performance duo whose work is stripped back and minimalist, lying somewhere between performance, dance and theatre. Tim Etchells is an artist and a writer, as well as the Artistic Director of Forced Entertainment.

"with a striking economy of effect, Bert and Nasi are worthy heirs to Monty Python"

Télérama

This production is an English version of the French production commissioned by Festival d’Avignon in 2023.

Credits:

A Tim Etchells, Forced Entertainment and Bert & Nasi production.

Director Tim Etchells

Text by Tim Etchells with Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas

Devised and performed by Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas

Lighting Design Alex Fernandes

Composer & Sound Design Graeme Miller

Executive Producer Khenory Sok

Tour Manager Jessica Barber

Technical Manager Enrico Aurigemma

Administrator Clelia Coussonnet

‘Very weird and extremely funny’

The New York Times ★★★★

‘Superbly absurd comedy’

The Guardian