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Schottenheimer talks Brazil trip, injury updates, and preparing for Ravens offense
Schottenheimer says the Brazil trip is all business. Get the latest injury updates and how the Cowboys plan to handle Lamar and Henry.
Lexington’s newest concert venue inks deal with new co-owner, promoter
The Rail in The Commons Entertainment District in Lexington will announce concert line-up later this year.
Judge orders White House to restore access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico. Reporters say they're still blocked
The back-and-forth is the latest in an extraordinary showdown between Trump and media outlets whose coverage he dislikes.
He lives with his parents and loves Jesus. Meet Gen Alpha's new heartthrob.
Malachi Barton opens up about "Coven Academy" and his rise as Disney's latest heartthrob.
Survey: 62% of college students, young adults worried about mental health
Sixty-two percent of college students and young adults between the ages of 18 and 28 are worried about their mental or behavioral health, according to UnitedHealthcare’s latest Young Adult and College Students Behavioral Health Report.
Poetslife Entertainment presents "Grown & Saxy AV: 4 Year Anniversary"
Acadiana's Local News Leader -- bringing Lafayette the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment
The Latest: Trump and Xi Jinping will hold talks in Washington on trade, AI and more
Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have no shortage of difficult issues to cover when they sit down for talks at the White House.
Why Tacoma athletes and seniors alike are braving this freezing, sub-zero box
Move aside, ice bath and cold plunges. Cryotherapy is having a moment in Tacoma thanks to this former Wilson High hooper.
Microsoft's Latest Round Of Layoffs May Have Killed A Brand New Age Of Empires Game
Rumors suggest World's Edge might have been working on a new entry, after news that its current project has been cancelled
Live updates: Judge orders Trump to restore media access to White House
Live updates and the latest news as a judge orders Trump to restore media access to White House and Xi Jinping makes his first state visit in over a decade.
The Daily Mauling: 9/24/26
Kansas Jayhawks News Tre White seems to have an extra year of eligibility. Michael Swain if 247 writes about what it might mean for Kansas Speaking of guys from least year’s team wanting one more year of eligibility, here’s the latest on the Melvin Council, Jr Through the Phog writes that there’s a men’s basketball […]
Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
Bills vs. Chargers: Wednesday injury reports for both teams
Here are the latest injury reports from Wednesday for both the Bills and Chargers.
USC has one of best business programs in US, according to US News & World Report
A business program at the University of South Carolina was ranked the best in the country once again, US News & World Report says.
Coffee, condos and shopping: Track top business changes in South Florida
Here’s what to know.
Ireland XI vs Kosovo – Predicted lineup and team news
The Republic of Ireland will take on Kosovo in their first UEFA Nations League B fixture on Thursday, travelling away as they aim to begin their latest campaign with a positive result.Ireland arrive i...
Five Takeaways: Commercial Real Estate Market
For its latest episode of Elevating The Conversation, the Journal sat down with Alicia Barbieri, co-president of Goodale & Barbieri, to discuss the commercial real estate market.
Global bond sell-off deepens amid fears US economy may be running too hot
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
Democrats lead in 2 Pa. swing congressional district races: F&M poll
Pennsylvania voters in two key congressional districts that broke for Republicans in 2024 are moving left, according to results of the latest Franklin & Marshall College Poll.
Stelson, Democrats lead in Pennsylvania district races: F&M Poll
Pennsylvania voters in two key congressional districts that broke for Republicans in 2024 are moving left, according to results of the latest Franklin & Marshall College Poll.
Manchester United announce seventh annual loss in latest financial record
Manchester United finished third in the 2025/26 Premier League season while recording their lowest wage bill in six years, The Athletic reports.United spent £302 million on wages during the year, dow...
Calhanoglu-Inter, goodbye? Juve-Inacio, Napoli-Italiano latest ☀️
The league is on pause and will remain so for about twenty days. So the transfer market is back in focus, with behind-the-scenes stories on missed signings, future renewals, and possible surprises in ...
Cubs’ Kevin Gausman Departs With Potential Injury: Latest Updates
The magic number for the Chicago Cubs to punch their ticket to the MLB postseason is one, but they’re certainly hoping right now that they’re not dealing with an injury to one of their most important players. During Wednesday evening’s contest at Wrigley Field against the Miami Marlins, starting pitcher Kevin Gausman dove to make […] The post Cubs’ Kevin Gausman Departs With Potential Injury: Latest Updates appeared first on HEAVY.
Admiral to cut 500 UK jobs in £100m cost drive
The Cardiff-based insurer says the cuts are about efficiency, not AI. It is the latest in a run of UK insurers shrinking headcount as motor margins tighten
Max Scherzer's answer on MLB future may surprise baseball fans
The latest indications from Scherzer are that he might have more in the tank.
Arkansas Advocate on Ozarks at Large: School grades, health campus, AI rules
Arkansas Advocate Editor-in-Chief Andrew DeMillo joined Ozarks at Large Senior Producer Matthew Moore on KUAF to discuss the latest grades for Arkansas schools, Alice Walton's healthcare campus plans and potential AI guardrails in Arkansas.
Giants injury update: the latest on LB Brian Burns
The New York Giants face another defensive setback as a key pass rusher is likely to miss time with an ankle injury following Monday’s loss.
AACF: Uninsured Arkansas children reached 7.7% in 2025
The percentage of Arkansas’ uninsured children climbed to 7.7% in 2024 – the latest in a trend that began after the state reached a historic low of 4.1% in 2016,...
What’s wrong with downtown Fresno? Longtime businessman has some answers
“Most of the stuff I see, they want tomorrow’s price today, and they still haven’t resolved some of the challenges.”
Iowa football inside top 20 of CBS power rankings
After its 3-0 start, Iowa football finds itself inside the top 20 of CBS' latest power rankings.
Kansas becomes the latest headache for Republicans, with Democrats eyeing a ‘miracle’ in Senate race
Adam Hamilton is asking Kansans to take a leap of faith and do something that hasn’t been done in 94 years: send a Democrat to the US Senate.
Red Wings Larkin Back on Ice; Won’t Play Thursday
The latest twist in the saga of former Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin saw him return to the ice […]
Campaign Reports Show How Much Local Candidates Have Raised, Spent
The latest round of campaign spending reports have been filed by state and county candidates.
Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunningham compares herself to Patrick Mahomes
WNBA star Sophie Cunningham invoked Patrick Mahomes after the Indiana Fever’s latest win.
SGMC Health Honors Foster with DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing
SGMC Health honored Samantha Foster, RN, Charge Nurse for Cath Lab Outpatient Prep and Recovery, as the latest recipient of the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses.
Latest Dylan Larkin update reignites monster trade rumors
A new development in Detroit has once again raised major questions about what comes next for the former captain.
📸 Germany unveil their latest adidas shirt on Thursday
The German national team will wear its final adidas shirt as early as Thursday, coinciding with Jürgen Klopp’s debut as head coach.The German brand brought forward the launch of the black shirt, wh...
2026 Bowl Projections After Week Three
Hello everyone and welcome back to our latest bowl projections here at Last Word On College Football. This past weekend was certainly an interesting one of course headed by the big one down in Oxford. The Rebels won out over LSU, and that shook up our rankings a little. In addition, another playoff team stumbled …
Watch the Meta Connect 2026 Keynote Right Here
Meta’s annual XR and AI focused Connect conference kicks off today. The biggest news is expected in the opening keynote, where the company is expected to reveal its ‘Phoenix’ MR headset and latest smartglasses. Watch the Meta Connect Keynote on September 23rd at 4PM PT Your timezone here Meta is playing it close to the […]
SLO County hospital network switches to AI-assisted electronic records system
Here’s what the switch means for patients.
Xbox's Latest Merger Means 'Forza Motorsport' Is Almost Certainly Done
Forza Horizon developer Playground and Forza Motorsport creators Turn 10 are merging into one studio focused on the Forza and Fable franchises.
Xiaomi 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max arrive with latest Snapdragon chips, privacy displays and more useful rear screens
They also get larger batteries and identical triple cameras. It only took a couple of hours for the first phones with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen...
Uptown Columbus Fall Festival returns with pony rides, pumpkin patch and food trucks
The event will feature an assortment of activities, vendors and entertainment.
Review: Lords of the End Times is Total War Warhammer III's most ambitious DLC yet, and it delivers
Whether you want to bring ruin to the world or save it from destruction, Total War: Warhammer III's latest DLC delivers on the ultimate power fantasy.
Next year’s iPhone Pro models have ‘near-borderless’ design: report
Apple reportedly has a redesign coming to next year’s iPhone Pro models, here’s the latest on the “near-borderless” design and display.
Google DeepMind's latest AI tool promises a new era for genetics research, but experts warn to take its predictions with caution
AlphaGenome Atlas could make it easier for geneticists to access powerful AI, but its predictions aren't always accurate.
Two Observations From Giants' 3-2 Loss vs. Twins
An observation on the hitting and pitching side of things following the San Francisco Giants' latest loss.
NFL Week 3 power rankings: Vikings rise, Bears tumble
Following Week 2 of the 2026 NFL season, here are our latest power rankings, which featured some big movers.
Travis Kelce Reacts to Taylor Swift's Viral 'That's My Husband' Celebration
Travis Kelce has seen the memes after wife Taylor Swift‘s touchdown celebration at his latest NFL game went viral.
920 Sports podcast has the latest on high school football and volleyball
The 920 Sports podcast looks back at Week 5 of the high school football season, previews the big Freedom/Little Chute matchup and has volleyball updates.
Is PENN Entertainment (PENN) Stock a Buy After Its Latest Multi-Million Dollar Bet?
Analyzing a gaming and entertainment operator requires looking past headline-grabbing project announcements to examine underlying cash generation, portfolio compounding, and capital allocation discipline. PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ:PENN) has spent recent periods restructuring its debt profile, improving operating margins, and refining its regional asset footprint to focus on higher-return landside venues. While the company has made measurable […]
Survey: Will the Lions beat the Jets in Week 3?
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NC seats join Democrats’ battleground list + Candidate gets unlikely endorsement
Democrats target more races for the NC Senate.
Reform and the UAE – a threat to British politics
By Alex Carlen The United Arab Emirates likes to present itself as part of the solution to the climate crisis. The oil-rich Gulf state has committed to Net Zero by 2050, hosted COP 28, and even declared “championing climate action” as one of three strategic objectives for this week’s session of the United Nations General Assembly. But behind the scenes the UAE has quietly built one of its closest political relationships in Europe with the party most hostile to climate action in Britain: Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. There is no evidence that the UAE is funding Reform. But a new FairSquare report, Petro-populism: the UAE–Reform threat, published today, documents a growing political relationship that should concern anyone interested in the integrity of British democracy. Reform’s leaders have embraced the UAE’s political model and promoted positions that align closely with the Emirati government’s priorities, while the UAE has given Farage and his party unusually warm access and public backing. What is emerging is not simply a relationship between British politicians and a wealthy Gulf state, but a channel through which an authoritarian government can cultivate political influence here, and abroad. Democracy for Sale relies on its readers. If you already support us, thanks so much. If you don’t, sign up to support fearless independent investigative journalism. Subscribe Back in January, Nigel Farage appeared at a GB News event in Dubai. On the 50th floor of a tower overlooking the luxury resorts and upscale residences of Palm Jumeirah, the Reform leader declared: “I want Clacton to look like this.” At the event – which Farage never declared on his official register of interests – senior Emirati officials mixed with British expats. Farage was keen to flatter. “We recognise you are our friends”, he said, assuring them that “a Brexit London, a Reform London, will remember you.” Controversy surrounding Reform’s finances and its susceptibility to foreign influence have centred around high-profile donations from billionaire crypto donors, and the jailing of Nathan Gill, Reform’s former leader in Wales, for accepting bribes to give pro-Russia speeches. Far less attention has been paid to Reform’s blossoming new alliance with the UAE, an oil-rich authoritarian state with a track record of ruinous anti-democratic interventions. Farage wasn’t always so fond of the UAE. Back in 2023 he called it an “absolute monarchy with an abysmal human rights record.” Now Reform’s hierarchy calls the UAE home. Deputy leader Richard Tice splits his time between his constituency and Dubai and has called on the UK to learn from the UAE. The party’s treasurer Nick Candy runs a firm which has been in partnership with a UAE-state linked firm since 2024. Nadhim Zahawi sits on the board of an Abu Dhabi think tank alongside an array of the most senior UAE officials and is reportedly close to three brothers of the country’s despotic ruler Mohammed Bin Zayed. Reform’s leading lights have effusively praised the UAE’s governance model, defended it from criticism, and advanced its political agenda in the UK. GB News, whose two major shareholders – the Legatum Foundation and Paul Marshall – have strong links to the UAE, has been more than happy to broadcast UAE propaganda and was forced to pay damages in 2025 after airing a false claim about a UK charity by the UAE “disinfluencer” Amjad Taha. The UAE has responded in kind. When the UAE Minister for Foreign Affairs conducted an official visit to the UK in May, Farage was the only non-government figure granted an audience. UAE state media publicised the meeting, and said that they discussed “the strategic relations between the two countries and ways to enhance them in a manner that serves mutual interests.” For the UAE these ‘mutual interests’ largely concern its paranoia over political Islam, and in this regard the UAE-Reform alliance is part of a broad and troubling pattern. Following a crackdown on dissent at home in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, the UAE has offered material and political support to a range of violent and authoritarian actors willing to oppose the Muslim Brotherhood with no regard for the consequences. Its meddling in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, and most notably Sudan, have been devastating. The UAE’s strategy of seeking out partners on the political fringes who it believes will advance its interests is not unique to Britain – it extends beyond the Middle East to Europe and the US. In France, it has offered clandestine support to Marine Le Pen through secret meetings, as well allegedly funding trips to the region after which Le Pen returned with a renewed focus on the UAE’s perceived enemies – Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood. Left-wing opposition leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has accused the UAE of smearing him and of “encouraging discrimination, hatred or violence”. In the US, the UAE actively supported the rise of Donald Trump, establishing itself as a key ally during both his first and second terms. Around these relationships sits a wider ecosystem of figures willing to amplify UAE narratives, that even extends to Andrew Tate and Tommy Robinson. Subscribe In Britain, the UAE has used a combination of aggressive diplomacy and illicit, disruptive tactics to achieve its policy goal of eliminating any perceived threat from political Islam. In 2012, for instance, it threatened to block billion-pound arms deals with the UK and stop inward investment if David Cameron did not act against the Muslim Brotherhood and rein in the BBC’s coverage of the group – going so far as to suggest, with no supporting evidence, that the group had infiltrated the BBC. It has financed smear campaigns against a high-profile UK charity and funded a mercenary to secretly surveil, and possibly assassinate, a British national on British soil. In Reform UK, the UAE has finally found an ally willing to not only ban the Muslim Brotherhood, but to publicly vilify the group and repeat the UAE’s claims that dangerous Muslims are a fifth column in British society, a narrative that aligns with the Islamophobia and anti-immigration sentiments that underpin Reform’s populist politics. The Rycroft review into foreign interference concluded that “hostile states and non-state actors have a clear incentive to attempt to undermine UK democracy.” The UAE’s network and alliance with Reform must be understood within that framework. It is a powerful, disruptive and deeply authoritarian actor with the resources and networks to intervene in our politics, and a track-record of doing so in a multitude of other countries. The evidence of the threat the UAE poses is overwhelming. The question is whether parliamentarians are willing to call the UAE out and demand action using the tools that the government has to respond. Placing the UAE on the “Enhanced Tier” of the Foreign Registration scheme alongside Russia and Iran would send a powerful signal to the UAE that its meddling will no longer be tolerated, and would place Farage’s next trips to the UAE under the scrutiny they deserve. Alex Carlen is research and advocacy manager at London based human rights organisation FairSquare and author of its new report Petro-populism: the UAE–Reform threat. Subscribe
Google could bring the Pixel 11's customized My Pixel colors to older Pixels
Looking at the latest My Pixel app, we have found evidence suggesting Google may expand the customized app icon colors to older Pixels.
Colts' Latest Roster Move Creates Big Opportunity for Rookie
The Indianapolis Colts placed veteran defensive lineman Micheal Clemons on Injured Reserve, paving the way for a rookie or two to earn more playing time.
Republican candidates highlight health care in 2026, battling voter distrust
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Democrats lead in new poll as Trump looms over midterms
President Donald Trump’s efforts to make the midterm elections a referendum on his presidency appear to be backfiring as Democratic congressional candidates hold a significant lead over Republicans in the latest poll from PBS News, NPR and Marist.
Voters trust local election officials. They’re less sure about the mail
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CDC survey finds mental health and suicide risk among U.S. teens has improved
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Latest Kyrie Irving Trade News Could Be Great For Lakers
The NBA future of Kyrie Irving could see a big trade coming in his future. A new report confirms the Dallas Mavericks expecting to start the season with Irving as the starting point guard. Most teams around the league forecast him to get traded in the near future. Cooper Flagg becoming the face of the […] The post Latest Kyrie Irving Trade News Could Be Great For Lakers appeared first on HEAVY.
GGCL shakeup highlights latest girls volleyball power rankings
See which teams are moving up or down in the latest Greater Cincinnati girls volleyball power rankings.
Did Tri-City Latino business leader threaten Canadian immigrant with ICE?
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How lip-syncing to AI let Forced Entertainment ‘play the game of theatre’
Today we have a fascinating piece by long-time Forced Entertainment fan Ben Kulvichit, speaking to Tim Etchells about their latest show Cold Sweat, how they are integrating lip-sync and AI voices into their work, the question of ‘authenticity’ on stage, and how lip-sync has even opened the door for them to make “something a little bit like drama”. This piece is a paid partnership with the Southbank Centre, where you can see Cold Sweat next month – we’re very grateful to the Southbank Centre for their ongoing support for Exeunt. Holly Williams ‘It was immediately interesting and uncanny’ **By Ben Kulvichit** “Is the microphone on?” So goes one of the opening lines of Signal to Noise, delivered by a human performer lip-syncing to an AI-generated voice. The voice is American, cheery but sluggish, slowed down into a gelatinous drawl. It repeats ad infinitum in a farce of stuckness; an answer never materialises. I find myself asking the same question as I hop on a Google Meet call with Tim Etchells, the artistic director of Forced Entertainment. We spend five or ten minutes frowning at each other, muting and unmuting, me gesticulating in semaphore into my webcam, checking if I am coming through now, restarting the laptop. To Etchells, I appear exaggeratedly mouthing words, my voice missing. In this gloopy purgatory of broken communication, life imitates art imitates life imitates art. We try a Zoom instead. Forced Entertainment, the pioneering British theatre company who have been at the avant-garde of performance since the 1980s, turned an interesting artistic corner with Signal to Noise, created on the occasion of their 40th anniversary. The whole performance employed this lip-sync technique to AI voices; on the face of it a left-field move from a company whose identity has long been grounded in the earthy, immediate presences of its performers and its unassuming, low-tech approach to theatricality. The technique, however, turned out to provide the company with a “rich new seam” of artistic enquiry, and has now spawned a trilogy of works. The second instalment, Cold Sweat, plays at Sheffield Theatres, Southbank Centre, and Lancaster Arts in October, while the third part, Everything Must Go, has been touring in Europe and is slated to come to the UK in 2027. As is often the case with Forced Entertainment shows, the main conceit for this work didn’t arrive until quite late. They were “four or five weeks into rehearsals for Signal to Noise,” Etchells recalls, and getting nowhere. Away from rehearsals, he had been playing around with feeding “weird texts” to AI voices to see how they would cope with them – “basically for my own amusement” – and was compelled by the uniformly “serviceable, benign, good-natured” tone they would read in, no matter how poetic, fractured or experimental the writing. On a hunch, he brought some examples into rehearsals and the performers gave lip-syncing a go. “It was immediately interesting and uncanny,” he recalls, with the performers having to deal in the moment with the problem of mapping themselves onto another artificial ‘performer,’ which itself was dealing with the problem of a very human text. “Almost all the writing for these projects would be useless to us unless it was done in this way,” says Etchells. “We wouldn’t know what to do with it. It’s too poetic. It’s too fictional. It’s too tangled.” But exploring lip-syncing along to the text has opened “an enormous reservoir of ways of thinking about writing and performing.” Subscribe to Exeunt, and get two in-depth pieces on theatre a week, direct to your inbox Subscribe Forced Entertainment have long been sifting through the detritus of popular culture, from daytime TV to end-of-the-pier vaudeville, magic acts and clown shows, to find frameworks for their own unusual entertainments. Lip-syncing, then, makes sense for them to experiment with. As a mode of performance, it’s wired into popular consciousness through pop stars trying to convince stadium audiences of their liveness, or those same voices as channeled through the made-up lips of contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race, or movie dialogue spreading virally through the host bodies of TikTok users. For Etchells, lip-syncing is often about “approaching real voices and trying to take on their aura,” subsuming that original human presence into yours. “There’s a very basic, elemental sort of theatre magic to it, produced in this very easy way.” This broad approach resonates with instances of lip-syncing within contemporary performance, too. In works like Re-Member Me and Showmanism, performance artist Dickie Beau acts as a kind of spirit medium for archival recordings (this process of re-membering – as in, giving corporeal form to voices – relies on his masterfully precise actor’s technique), while Frankie Thompson is similarly possessed by a host of characters ranging from a nine-year-old Jacob Rees-Mogg to Cliff Richards, all of whom she finds compellingly nauseating, in the exorcism ritual that is her latest show, Horrible Things. What’s different about Forced Entertainment’s use of lip-syncing is that here, there is no original presence to be channeled. The performers are instead taking on what Etchells describes as “the voices of nobody,” or rather the “phantasmic, aggregated echoes” of the many many voices on whose data the AI has been trained, and which are now conjuring into existence words they never actually said. There is a sort of mournful, empty quality to these voices, having “washed up” far away from the people they originally belonged to, to find themselves in stranger’s mouths listing objects, wondering if anyone can hear them and glitching in interminable loops. There is a cold, sad anonymity to it all. Etchells remarks that occasionally the software company he used has notified him that particular people are withdrawing their voices from the platform, instructing him to cease use of those voices. Using these technologies in performance certainly brings up ethical questions around digital rights, consent, identity and ownership, although in the grand scheme of things, Etchells is fairly blasé about it: of all the purposes someone’s voice might be put to without their knowledge, “an avant-garde performance is probably the least of their worries.” [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) [ Frankie Thompson: How I manage my own ‘horrible things’ at the Edinburgh Fringe ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) Exeunt · Aug 25 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) For the performers, though, lip-syncing to these strange, artificial voices is an odd task, requiring them to bend their live, human presence into the shapes produced by machines. Politically, it mirrors processes that are already at play in the continued computational automation of human life. Etchells brings up James Bridle’s writings on new technologies as a reference point: one example Bridle gives is of “chaotic storage”, a logistics technique employed by Amazon fulfilment centres whereby items are stored not according to traditional methods of categorisation or alphabetisation, but in a way that an algorithm determines to produce the most efficient routes for ‘picking’ based on customer purchase patterns. This appears completely random and incomprehensible to humans, with paddling pools sitting next to USB sticks sitting next to blowtorches, and so for the warehouse workers, the process of picking items becomes completely reliant on technology which tells them where to go. Our world is increasingly being designed not with humans in mind, but rather machines. As Etchells puts it, “technology malforms the space, and then you end up having to live in it.” Initially, Forced Entertainment tried their best to live in the world of machines: “I was in the it’s-got-to-be-perfect school of lip-sync,” says Etchells. But with their aesthetic being so tied to the failing act, the slipping mask, the shoddy costume, “it’s no surprise really that that didn’t last.” Instead, the performers got to enjoy being late for a line, or playing games with each other, “stealing” each other’s voices. Etchells compares it to the principles of ventriloquism, in which a free-floating voice unattached to a body is fundamentally discomforting and “sort of traumatic”. That discomfort is equally as alluring to Forced Entertainment as the satisfaction of precision, the pretence of authenticity only interesting if shown to be a pretence. Lip-sync has also opened up new avenues for the company. Having been allergic all their lives to Plays-with-a-capital-P, with Cold Sweat Forced Entertainment find themselves approaching something a little bit like drama. Rather than the presentational arena of Signal to Noise’s open white stage, Cold Sweat places us more decisively in a “fictional locale”: what appears to be “the aftermath of some disastrous party or backyard drinking binge” where three figures – family members, or neighbours, perhaps – are the last ones standing. “It’s all quite acrimonious and accusatory, everyone’s talking over each other.” For Etchells, this more fictional mode is “a door that we’ve never been able to open. We’ve just never really gone there.” Perhaps it is the technique of lip-syncing, an extra buffer of mediation, that allows them to venture away from the here-and-now without feeling that they have to commit to the “psychological claptrap” that comes along with acting; to be able to “play the game of theatre, without getting one’s hands too dirty.” As I wonder how else the impulses behind Forced Entertainment’s work have changed over time, it occurs to me that over the last ten years of new creations, with the exception of If All Else Fails, the company’s performers haven’t ever spoken on stage: there were two shows without any language at all, Out of Order and Under Bright Light, and then this trilogy of lip-sync works. Etchells agrees it’s a shift away from earlier productions, that were so often about “the actual voices of the performers and their actual presences. We had a lot of money, in some ways, on an authentic approach to what it might mean to speak on the stage.” But this sense of authentic presence itself had a fakeness to it; these days, Etchells can’t stand that mode of being onstage where performers “are here to be cheeky and witty versions of themselves. I don’t want to be charmed.” Pulling back into a more anonymous space has resulted in works that feel slightly sharper-edged, more brutal in a way. “All of these shows are post-Brexit, post-Trump, post-truth, post-everything,” Etchells notes. Speech, charisma, authenticity – these things feel politically loaded, and perhaps warmth and openness just don’t feel like the right tools to reflect the world we’re living in. “It feels like the space is closing down, and we’re trying to deal with the fact that the system, the structure that you’re in, is more oppressive and more powerful. It probably always was, but I think we’re just more tuned to it now.” Yet even without their voices, the performers’ distinctive presences – ones that many audiences have followed around for years, if not decades – still, inevitably, shine through as they physically navigate whatever unending task the system of the piece has set for them. They’re still trying to keep up with the onslaught of text, still running about, changing costumes, moving stuff around. The human is always stuck in the teeth of the machine, jamming the smooth, frictionless cheeriness of the not-real, gesticulating silently, trying desperately to communicate. Cold Sweat is at Sheffield Theatres, 2 to 3 October; Southbank Centre, London, 9 to 10 October; Lancaster Arts, 14 October [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) [ Exeunt recommends... the best autumn theatre ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) Exeunt · Sep 16 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) This piece was paid for by the Southbank Centre. Such support helps Exeunt to keep publishing the most interesting writing, about the most exciting theatre. Interested in partnering with Exeunt? Visit our Advertise with Exeunt page, where you can get more information, download an advertising pack, and find our contact details.
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