Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance
A Handbook
1st Edition
Published on 27. September 2018
264 pages
978-1-350-31646-1 (ISBN)
Description
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. Phil Smith draws on a wide range of interdisciplinary and international performance examples, and uses an innovative variety of exercises, to show students and aspiring performance-makers how to find a site and generate a performance beyond the theatre building.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-350-31646-1 (9781350316461)
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Book
11/2018
Red Globe Press
€92.01
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Person
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).
Content
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
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
