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Performing site-specific theatre : politics, place, practice / edited by Anna Birch and Joanne Tompkins.

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Serie: Performance interventionsUtgivning: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave MacMillan, 2012.Beskrivning: xv, 253 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:

978-0-230-36406-6
978-0-230-36405-9 (hardback)
0-230-36405-5 (hardback)
0-230-36406-3 (pbk.)

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792.022 23/swe

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Sammanfattning: Performing Site-Specific Theatre' turns a critical eye to the increasingly popular form of site-specific performance. By re-assessing this contemporary practice, the book investigates the nature of the relationship between 'site' and 'performance.' Site-specific performance operates differently from performance that takes place within a theatre venue because it seeks to match form and content (and place and space) more finely than does theatre that takes place inside conventional venues. Yet the form also encourages an investigation of how we might understand 'site' as less fixed or less specifically geographical; it broadens the types of relevant 'spaces' we might consider. The form also enables us to address a range of performative issues, from the development of site-specific 'soundscapes' to the role of the spectator in site-specific performance.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Materials specified	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Musik- och teaterbiblioteket Magasin A	C12.506		1	Available		26201830325

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Performing Site-Specific Theatre' turns a critical eye to the increasingly popular form of site-specific performance. By re-assessing this contemporary practice, the book investigates the nature of the relationship between 'site' and 'performance.' Site-specific performance operates differently from performance that takes place within a theatre venue because it seeks to match form and content (and place and space) more finely than does theatre that takes place inside conventional venues. Yet the form also encourages an investigation of how we might understand 'site' as less fixed or less specifically geographical; it broadens the types of relevant 'spaces' we might consider. The form also enables us to address a range of performative issues, from the development of site-specific 'soundscapes' to the role of the spectator in site-specific performance.