The 15th Rex Cramphorn Memorial Lecture by Tim Etchells & Terry O'Connor of Forced Entertainment
Forced Entertainment, Bloody Mess. Photo: Hugo Glendinning.
Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Sydney is honoured to host the exclusive Sydney appearance by founding members of the award-winning theatre company Forced Entertainment from the UK, following the company’s appearance at the Adelaide Festival.
In Place (Once More) of Another is the title of this, the 15th Rex Cramphorn Memorial Lecture, written by Artistic Director, Tim Etchells and delivered by Terry O'Connor, with Etchells joining the audience via video call for Q&A.
In this lecture, Etchells and O’Connor will stage a particular tension at the heart of performance. Exploring the roles of messenger, stand-in, actor and proxy, the lecture addresses the business of ‘standing in for’ or ‘taking the place of’ another and the role that language and performance play in marking or invoking the presence of absent bodies.
Presented by Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Sydney, with support from the Power Institute.
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Terry O'Connor
Terry O'Connor has a long history of engagement as a lecturer, mentor and collaborator with other artists. She has been a Creative Fellow at Roehampton and Birmingham Universities, working with the RSC and the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford. In 2011, she became Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance Practice at the University of Sheffield.
Tim Etchells
In 2007 Tim Etchells was awarded an honorary doctorate by Dartington College of Arts in recognition of his writing for and about contemporary performance. He was Legacy: Thinker in Residence (2009-2010) at Tate Research and the Live Art Development Agency in London, Visiting Honorary Professor, School of Arts, Roehampton University (2010-2012) and Professor of Performance at Sheffield University 2011–2012. Etchells was Artist of the City of Lisbon (2014) and won the Spalding Gray Award in 2016, recognising him as a ‘fearless innovator of theatrical form’. Under Etchells’ direction Forced Entertainment won the International Ibsen Prize 2016. He won the Manchester Fiction Prize in 2019.