How do we know where we stand in history? If I had lived through the Renaissance, would I have known I was a Renaissance woman? When you die, how long will you be remembered? Within 100 years or so everyone who knows you will be dead, their extinguished memories extinguishing you, too.
The latest from Forced Entertainment asks all the big questions and does it in typical style, complete with bad wigs, gratuitous nudity, cheesy jokes, loud music, cunningly controlled chaos and the company's peculiarly effective guerrilla theatre tactic. Just when you think you can't bear another second of this two-hour, no-interval show, it mugs you with its naked emotional sweetness.
The World in Pictures is exactly what it says on the tin: a gallop through history from cavemen to the present day, stopping off at the Roman empire, the dark ages, the Black Death (a chap with a wheelbarrow), and a sunny afternoon of innocence in the late Victorian period before the carnage really began.
Sometimes it is like an arty National Theatre of Brent production, at others like a homemade flick-book. There is plenty of fun to be had looking at the way movies have colonised our view of history. But, like Complicité's Mnemonic, this is a touching meditation on the forgotten individuals who make up real history, and our own tiny place in the history of the world.
· Until November 19. Box office: 020-8237 1111. Then touring.
