Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance: A Handbook

ISBN-13: 9781352003178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 264 str.

Phil Smith

Opis

This practical, accessible and far-reaching guide to making site-specific theatre and performance emphasises the diversity of approaches to the practice, and explores key principles of space and site.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Arriving: a fluid sort of prologue Part I: Finding a site 1.Why make Site Specific Performance? 2.Drifting and quest: in search of sites 3.Journey performances 4.What is a site? Part II: Generating Performance 5.Visiting your site 6.Site Aesthetics 7.Personae, presences, characters Part III: Shaping A Production 8.Dramaturgy 9. Scenographies and Enchanted Objects 10. Communities, Audiences and Immersion 11. Technology 12.Site Etiquette Bibliography

O autorze

Phil Smith is Associate Professor (Reader) at Plymouth University, UK. He is a performance-maker, writer and ambulatory researcher. He is a core member of Wrights & Sites and co-author of their ‘The Architect-Walker’ (2018), and company dramaturg for Munich-based TNT Theatre. His previous publications include ‘Rethinking Mythogeography in Northfield, Minnesota’ (2018, with photographer John Schott), ‘Anywhere’ (2017), ‘Walking Stumbling Limping Falling’ (2017, with poet Alyson Hallett), ‘A Footbook of Zombie Walking’ and ‘Walking’s New Movement’ (2015), ‘On Walking’ and ‘Enchanted Things’ (2014), ‘Counter-Tourism: The Handbook’ (2012) and ‘Mythogeography’ (2010).