Overview
- Engages with the relationship between ruins and performance
- Analyses ruins and performance using case studies that have taken place both domestically and in countries such as Bosnia Herzegovina, Poland, Germany, Greece, and Sicily
- Contextualises performance events in ruins within the broader framework of Ruin Studies
Part of the book series: Performing Landscapes (PELA)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book engages with the relationship between ruins, dilapidation, and abandonment and cultural events performed within such spaces. Following the author’s fieldwork in the UK, Bosnia Herzegovina, Poland, Germany, Greece, and Sicily, chapters describe, investigate, and reflect upon live performance events which have taken place in sites of decay and abandonment. The book’s main focus is upon modern economic ruins and ruins of warfare. Each chapter provides several case studies based upon the author’s own site visits and interviews with actors, directors, producers, curators, writers, and other artists. The book contextualises these events within the wider framework of Ruin Studies and provides brief summaries of how we might understand the ruin in terms of time, politics, culture, and atmospheres. The book is particularly preoccupied with artists’ reasons and motivations for placing performance events in ruined spaces and how these work dramaturgically.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Simon Murray teaches Contemporary Theatre and Performance at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has a deep background in Sociology and Cultural Studies and was a professional performer and theatre-maker between 1985 and 1996. Before arriving at Glasgow in 2008 he was Director of Theatre at Dartington College of Arts, UK. He has published widely on physical theatres, Jacques Lecoq, WG Sebald, collaboration, and lightness.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Performing Ruins
Authors: Simon Murray
Series Title: Performing Landscapes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40643-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40642-4Published: 18 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40645-5Published: 18 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40643-1Published: 17 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-5562
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5570
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 316
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
Topics: Performing Arts, Contemporary Theatre, Performers and Practitioners, Applied Theatre