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Forced Entertainment is a group of six artists formed in 1984 and led by director and writer Tim Etchells. The Company continually develop new performance and theatre forms to find the most effective articulation of its ideas, to make work that is engaging, challenging and surprising, exploring the possibilities of what theatre might be. A six-hour theatrical performance, during which audience members are free to come and go as they wish, And on the Thousandth Night draws on film plots, religious stories, traditional tales, jokes, modern myths and love stories. The piece was created for the Festival Ayloul in Beirut in 2000 and is presented as part of the SPILL Festival of Performance, an international artist-led programme of new theatre, live art and performance produced by the Pacitti Company.