Since 1984, I’ve led the performance group Forced Entertainment – an ensemble of six artists based in Sheffield, UK, creating work collaboratively and touring internationally. The bulk of Forced Entertainment’s work is in performance, but has also included installation, durational, new media and site-specific projects. From time to time we invite other people to work with us on particular projects and have built up a regular group of collaborators over the years. I have directed all of the group’s performances since 1986 and for many of them have also written texts.

Please note that all of the below links will take you to an external Forced Entertainment site.

Recent performances for theatre spaces that I have created with the company include the disastrous vaudeville First Night, the deconstructed rock-spectacle Bloody Mess, the chaotic story of the mankind The World In Pictures and a performance based on Sophie Calle’s project Exquisite Pain.

Durational performances by the group tend to be improvised works, often presented in non-theatre spaces such as galleries and found locations and based on strict but generative rule systems; the public are usually free to arrive, depart or return at any point. These works have included Speak Bitterness, structured as a marathon of confessions, and Quizoola!, an improvised 6-hour performance based on my text comprising 2,000 questions.

You can find a full archive of my work with the group spanning the last 23 years, as well as information about current and forthcoming performances at: www.forcedentertainment.com.