The unbearable intimacy of voicing someone’s words — with Forced Entertainment

Words can mean everything, or nothing at all: it all depends on how they're delivered. This relationship between writer, script, actor and audience creates a particular tension that lies at the heart of performance. Who gives meaning to the words, interprets the creative material, who holds the power?This is a lecture, but not as you know it, by members of the multi award-winning British theatre company Forced Entertainment.The 15th annual Rex Cramphorn Memorial Lecture was delivered at the University of Sydney on Tuesday 18 March, 2025.SpeakersTerry O'ConnorPerformer and co-founder, Forced EntertainmentTim EtchellsArtistic Director and co-founder, Forced EntertainmentIan Maxwell (host)Chair of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Sydney