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Making Trouble: four decades of Forced Entertainment

A conversation with Tim Etchells and Cathy Naden, founder members of the experimental theatre collective, hosted by Sara Jane Bailes and Augusto Corrieri (Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Sussex)

How do you begin to take stock of forty years of continued experimentation, provocation and tinkering with theatre, begun in Britain in 1984 continuing to the present day? From Thatcher and the first Apple Computer to Trump, Putin, and Deepfake everything. What have Forced Entertainment been doing all this time? Choosing two works per decade to prompt discussion about the company's extraordinary theatre practice, the conversation is framed by a selection of stunning images gathered by photographer Hugo Glendinning in his four-decade long documentation of the group's work. Exploring Forced Entertainment’s lasting impact on contemporary performance, this conversation celebrates some of the significant, difficult and hilarious interventions made by the UK's most consistent, surprising and inexhaustible theatre artists.

3pm - 5pm with a short interval around half way through