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Performing Site-Specific Theatre engages with theatre and performance that is grounded in an in-depth exploration and expression of spatial practice. This volume emerged from the editors’ fascination with how different types of spatial arrangements affect our understanding of and relationships with performance: specifically, the particularities of ‘place’ and its capacity to recontextualize performance, just as performance can reformulate how we perceive and experience space and place.1 The form continues to provoke questions about what both performance and site convey; in response, this volume investigates how the genre operates now and into the future, when space, place, site, landscape, and location are regularly characterized by ambiguity, contingency, and unsettlement.
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Tompkins, J. (2012). The ‘Place’ and Practice of Site-Specific Theatre and Performance. In: Birch, A., Tompkins, J. (eds) Performing Site-Specific Theatre. Performance Interventions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283498_1
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