Marking Time: Performance, Archaeology and City: Performance, Archaeology and the City - Rilegato

Pearson, Mike

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ISBN 10: 085989875X ISBN 13: 9780859898751

Casa editrice: Univ of Exeter Pr, 2013

Riassunto

In Marking Time, Mike Pearson investigates alternative theater making in Cardiff from the 1960s through the present. Using “theater archaeology,” or recreating theater experiences through interviews with those present at specific performances, revisiting the site of the theater production, and looking at other first-person documentation, Pearson offers his readers a unique approach to theater history. An unusual blend of oral history, academic rigor, and creative writing, Marking Time reveals a city and its working artists in a new and fascinating light.  

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L'autore:

Mike Pearson is professor of performance studies and a Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, Wales.  

Product Description:

Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city - Cardiff. In a series of five itineraries, it visits fifty sites where significant events occurred, setting performances within local topographical and social contexts, and in relation to a specific architecture and polity. These sites - from disused factories to scenes of crime, from auditoria to film sets - it regards as landmarks in the conception of a history of performance. Marking Time uses performance and places as a means to reflect on the character of the city itself - its history, its fabric and make-up, its cultural ecology and its changing nature. Weaving together personal recollections, dramatic scripts, archival records and documentary photographs, it suggests a new model for studying and for making performance...for other artistic practices...for other cities. Marking Time is an urban companion to the rural themes and fieldwork approaches considered in 'In Comes I': Performance, Memory and Landscape (University of Exeter Press, 2006).

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• Editore: Univ of Exeter Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 085989875X
• ISBN 13: 9780859898751
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 276