And on the Thousandth Night photo: Hugo Glendinning

Performing Arts WALKER CLOSE-DOWN SPECTACULAR! A FESTIVAL OF FORCED ENTERTAINMENT AND ON THE THOUSANDTH NIGHT SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2004, 11 PM-5 AM, $ PERFORMANCE/FILMS ONLY: $14 ($7 WALKER MEMBERS) $ CLOSING PARTY/PERFORMANCE/FILMS (9 PM-5 AM): $30 ($15) AUDITORIUM

Cheap red cloaks and cardboard crowns. Eight kings and queens? Perhaps. A story is told, made up live, dragged from memory. It's a long, mutating, and endlessly self-canceling tale that somehow seems to include many, if not all, of the stories in the world. The interwoven tales move between absurd vulgarity and surpassing tenderness as the hosts teeter between exhaustion and comic hysteria. "Seldom [do] performers on the stage give off such a sense of spirit with such lightness and evident pleasure" (Gazette, London). All topics are fair game: religion, modern myths, sex, film plots, traditional tales, jokes, personal insights, ghosts, love . . . well, you get the idea.

Help us close down the Walker and open up our year of Walker without Walls in a memorable fashion with this one-of-a-kind, six-hour performance. Come and go as you please, bring a pillow or blanket, and join us for a free continental breakfast at the end of this adventure in modern storytelling. Contains adult subject matter. Due to the unique nature of Forced Entertainment's performance at the closing party, seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis.




FORCED ENTERTAINMENT'S RESIDENCY AND PERFORMANCES ARE MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM THE BRITISH COUNCIL, THE BUSH FOUNDATION, AND TARGET. OUT THERE 16 IS SUPPORTED IN PART WITH FUNDS FROM THE WALKER'S DORIS DUKE FUND FOR JAZZ AND DANCE. WALKER WITHOUT WALLS IS MADE POSSIBLE BY GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM TARGET.