By Professor Mike Pearson
ISBN-10: 085989875X
ISBN-13: 9780859898751
ISBN-10: 0859898768
ISBN-13: 9780859898768
Marking Time: functionality, archaeology and town charts a family tree of other practices of theatre-making because the Nineteen Sixties in a single specific urban – Cardiff. In a sequence of 5 itineraries, it visits fifty websites the place major occasions happened, surroundings performances inside neighborhood topographical and social contexts, and with regards to a selected structure and polity. those websites – from disused factories to scenes of crime, from auditoria to movie units – it regards as landmarks within the notion of a historical past of performance.
Marking Time uses functionality and areas as a method to mirror at the personality of the town itself – its background, its cloth and makeup, its cultural ecology and its altering nature. Weaving jointly own reminiscences, dramatic scripts, archival documents and documentary photos, it indicates a brand new version for learning and for making performance…for different inventive practices…for different cities.
Marking Time is an city spouse to the agricultural topics and fieldwork ways thought of in ‘In Comes I’: functionality, reminiscence and Landscape (University of Exeter Press, 2006).
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