ABSTRACT
In response to a call for background material related to rehearsal, we were kindly sent an unpublished text by Tim Etchells from Forced Entertainment, the longstanding Sheffield-based theatre group.1 Alongside pleasurable meandering over the company’s history, it is an attempt at capturing something of the ‘mutable logics of play – with its transformations, its power reversals, its illogics, its joys, its potential escapes’: a writer/director trying to catch a whisper of the secret of his own methodology.2
