商品簡介
Site-specific performance - acts of theatre and performative events at landscape locations, in village streets, in urban situations. In houses, chapels, barns, disused factories, railway stations; on hillsides, in forest clearings, under water. At the scale of civil engineering; as intimate as a guided walk.
Leading theatre artist and scholar Mike Pearson draws on thirty years of practical experience, proposing original approaches to the creation and study of performance outside the auditorium. In this book he suggests organizing principles, innovative strategies, methods and exercises for making theatre in a variety of contexts and locations. Through examples, case studies and projects, he develops distinctive theoretical insights into the relationship of site and performance, scenario and scenography. Site-Specific Performance encourages practical initiatives in the conception, devising and staging of performances, while also recommending effective models for its critical appreciation.
`Pearson has an evocative style that oscillates between poetry and pedagogy. His greatest strength as a writer may well be his capacity to analyze performance, to explain how works of art do their work, and to draw clear relationships between theories of performance and practice.'---Laurie Beth Clark, Professor of Video/Performance/Installation at the University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
`Mike Pearson's vast experience with both the practicalities and the theory of site-specific theatre makes him the ideal author if Site-Specific Performance. This rewarding study offers challenging contexts, questions, and exercises for students.'---Joanne Tompkins, Professor of Drama, University of Queensland, Australia
作者簡介
Mike Pearson is Professor of Performance Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK. He was an artistic director of Cardiff Laboratory Theatre (1973-80) and Brith Gof (1981-97). He continues to make performance with Pearson/Brookes (1997-present). He is co-author of Theatre/Archaeology and author of In Comesl: Performance, Memory and Landscape.
