Performing Site-Specific Theatre [electronic resource] : Politics, Place, Practice
Tompkins, Joanne.
Birch, Anna.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
This book investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the twenty-first century. Leading practitioners and theorists interrogate issues of performance and site to broaden our understanding of the role that place plays in performance and the ways that performance influences it
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 The 'Place' and Practice of Site-Specific Theatre and Performance; Part I: Site-Specificity and Economics; 2 Rethinking Site-Specificity: Monopoly, Urban Space, and the Cultural Economics of Site-Specific Performance; Part II: Site-Specificity and the Narratives of History; 3 Rehearsing across Space and Place: Rethinking A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle
4 Embodied Presence and Dislocated Spaces: Playing the Audience in Ten Thousand Several Doors in a Promenade, Site-Specific Performance of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi5 Haunted House: Staging The Persians with the British Army; 6 Toiling, Tolling, and Telling: Performing Dissensus; Part III: Site-Specificity and the Slippage of Place; 7 Beyond Site-Specificity: Environmental Heterocosms on the Street; 8 Repetition and Performativity: Site-Specific Performance and Film as Living Monument; 9 Contemporary Ekkeklemas in Site-Specific Performance
10 'Places, Like Property Prices, Go Up and Down': Site-Specificity, Regeneration, and The Margate ExodusPart IV: Site-Specificity and Theatrical Intimacy; 11 Ambulatory Audiences and Animate Sites: Staging the Spectator in Site-Specific Performance; 12 Immersive Negotiations: Binaural Perspectives on Site-Specific Sound; 13 My Sites Set on You: Site-Specificity and Subjectivity in 'Intimate Theatre'; Part V: Site-Specificity and Politics; 14 Siting the People: Power, Protest, and Public Space; Bibliography; Index
This book investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the twenty-first century. Leading practitioners and theorists interrogate issues of performance and site to broaden our understanding of the role that place plays in performance and the ways that performance influences it
Site-specific theater.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film
Drama