Abstract
In everyday English, ‘commute’ has two meanings: to journey regularly between home and work, and to reduce a prison sentence. The meanings are apparently distinct, not least since one privileges space and the other time. Journeys also take time, however, and sentences are served within spatial constraints, and in this chapter, we will explore these conflations of meaning and experience in order to explain some of the conceptual and practical challenges of making a touring performance about urban routines.
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Jones, S., Rae, P. (2013). Commuting Performance → Working the Middle Ground. In: Hopkins, D.J., Solga, K. (eds) Performance and the Global City. Performance Interventions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137367853_8
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