Forced Entertainment’s Tim Etchells forecasts The Coming Storm

INTERVIEW: TIM ETCHELLS

The artistic director of Sheffield-based performance collective Forced Entertainment talks to Matt Trueman about their latest work The Coming Storm (BAC) and the company’s in-built suspicion of straightforward narrative. With the company in its 27th year, he also talks about self-referentiality, being on the syllabus and keeping the band going. Recorded at Battersea Arts Centre, 21 June 2012.

The dates of the UK tour this autumn are:

24 October 2012
The Coming Storm
Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
0114 249 6000
www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk

29 & 30 October 2012
The Coming Storm
Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster
01524 594151
www.liveatlica.org

2 November 2012
The Coming Storm
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
Part of SPILL Festival
+44 (0) 1473 295 900
www.wolseytheatre.co.uk

6 & 7 November 2012
The Coming Storm
Warwick Arts Centre
024 7652 4524
www.warwickartcentre.co.uk

14 – 16 November 2012
The Coming Storm
Contact, Manchester
0161 274 0600
www.contactmcr.com

20 November – 1 December 2012
The Coming Storm
Battersea Arts Centre, London
0207 223 2223
www.bac.org.uk

I really wanted that feeling, after you’ve been sitting there for 45-50 minutes, where you’re thinking, “How the hell did we get here?”