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Site-specific performance / Mike Pearson.

By: Pearson, Mike, 1949-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010Description: xv, 207 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780230576704; 0230576702; 9780230576711 (paperback); 0230576710 (paperback).Subject(s): Site-specific theaterDDC classification: 792.022
Contents:
Models and approaches -- Site: places -- Context: conditions -- Scenario: dramaturgy -- After effects.
Summary: The text proposes original approaches to the creation and study of performance outside the auditorium. It suggests innovative strategies, methods and techniques for making theatre in various locations, and through examples, case studies and projects develops distinctive theoretical insights into the relationship of site and performance-- Provided by publisher.

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Site-specific performance - acts of theatre and performative events at landscape locations, in village streets, in urban situations. In houses, chapels, barns, disused factories, railway stations; on hillsides, in forest clearings, underwater. At the scale of civil engineering; as intimate as a guided walk.

Leading theatre artist and scholar Mike Pearson draws upon thirty years practical experience, proposing original approaches to the creation and study of performance outside the auditorium. In this book he suggests organizing principles, innovative strategies, methods and exercises for making theatre in a variety of contexts and locations, and through examples, case studies and projects develops distinctive theoretical insights into the relationship of site and performance, scenario and scenography. This book encourages practical initiatives in the conception, devising and staging of performances, while also recommending effective models for its critical appreciation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202) and index.

Models and approaches -- Site: places -- Context: conditions -- Scenario: dramaturgy -- After effects.

The text proposes original approaches to the creation and study of performance outside the auditorium. It suggests innovative strategies, methods and techniques for making theatre in various locations, and through examples, case studies and projects develops distinctive theoretical insights into the relationship of site and performance-- Provided by publisher.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Part I Site
  • Theory
  • Typology
  • On Site
  • Part II Scenario
  • Concept
  • Strategy
  • Approaches to Devising
  • Performance as Assemblage
  • Dramaturgy
  • Organising Principles
  • Part III Set Up
  • Scenography
  • Working with Environment
  • Technology
  • Web-based Performance
  • Synthesis

Author notes provided by Syndetics

MIKE PEARSON is Professor of Performance Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK. Formerly an Artistic Director of Cardiff Laboratory Theatre (1973-80) and Brith Gof (1981-97). He continues to make performance with Pearson/Brookes (1997-present). He is co-author of Theatre/Archaeology (Routledge: 2001) and In Comes I: Performance, Memory and Landscape (Exeter University Press: 2006).
MIKE PEARSON is Professor of Performance Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK. Formerly an Artistic Director of Cardiff Laboratory Theatre (1973-80) and Brith Gof (1981-97). He continues to make performance with Pearson/Brookes (1997-present). He is co-author of Theatre/Archaeology (Routledge: 2001) and In Comes I: Performance, Memory and Landscape (Exeter University Press: 2006).