Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance

Phil Smith is Associate Professor (Reader) at Plymouth University, UK. He is a performance-maker, writer and ambulatory researcher. He is a core member of Wrights & Sites and co-author of their ‘The Architect-Walker’ (2018), and company dramaturg for Munich-based TNT Theatre. His previous publications include ‘Rethinking Mythogeography in Northfield, Minnesota’ (2018, with photographer John Schott), ‘Anywhere’ (2017), ‘Walking Stumbling Limping Falling’ (2017, with poet Alyson Hallett), ‘A Footbook of Zombie Walking’ and ‘Walking’s New Movement’ (2015), ‘On Walking’ and ‘Enchanted Things’ (2014), ‘Counter-Tourism: The Handbook’ (2012) and ‘Mythogeography’ (2010).

List of Illustrations.- Arriving: a fluid sort of prologue.- Part I: Finding a site.- 1. Why make Site-Specific Performance?.- 2. Drifting and quest: in search of sites.- 3. Journey performances.- 4. What is a site?.- Part II: Generating Performance.- 5. Visiting your site.- 6. Site Aesthetics.- 7. Personae, presences, characters.- Part III: Shaping A Production.- 8. Dramaturgy.- 9. Scenographies and Enchanted Objects.- 10. Communities, Audiences and Immersion.- 11. Technology.- 12. Site Etiquette.- Bibliography.