Performing Site-Specific Theatre

1. The ‘Place’ and Practice of Site-Specific Theatre and Performance
Joanne Tompkins

Part I. Site-Specificity and Economics

2. Rethinking Site-Specificity: Monopoly, Urban Space, and the Cultural Economics of Site-Specific Performance
Michael McKinnie

Part II. Site-Specificity and the Narratives of History

3. Rehearsing across Space and Place: Rethinking A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle
Susan Bennett, Julie Sanders

4. Embodied Presence and Dislocated Spaces: Playing the Audience in Ten Thousand Several Doors in a Promenade, Site-Specific Performance of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi
Jane Collins

5. Haunted House: Staging The Persians with the British Army
Mike Pearson

6. Toiling, Tolling, and Telling: Performing Dissensus
Kathleen Irwin

Part III. Site-Specificity and the Slippage of Place

7. Beyond Site-Specificity: Environmental Heterocosms on the Street
Susan Haedicke

8. Repetition and Performativity: Site-Specific Performance and Film as Living Monument
Anna Birch

9. Contemporary Ekkeklemas in Site-Specific Performance
Lesley Ferris

10. ‘Places, Like Property Prices, Go Up and Down’: Site-Specificity, Regeneration, and The Margate Exodus
Louise Owen

Part IV. Site-Specificity and Theatrical Intimacy

11. Ambulatory Audiences and Animate Sites: Staging the Spectator in Site-Specific Performance
Keren Zaiontz

12. Immersive Negotiations: Binaural Perspectives on Site-Specific Sound
Bruce Barton, Richard Windeyer

13. My Sites Set on You: Site-Specificity and Subjectivity in ‘Intimate Theatre’
Helen Iball

Part V. Site-Specificity and Politics

14. Siting the People: Power, Protest, and Public Space
Sophie Nield

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Performing Arts