Theatre/Archaeology

by Pearson,Mike

• ISBN13: 9780415194570
• ISBN10: 0415194571
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Theatre/Archaeologyis a brilliant and provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework. It facilitates a new way of investigating landscape and cityscape, and notions of physicality, encounter, site and context. The book takes scholarly innovation to new levels. It is the result of a long-term, unique collaboration between a renowned archaeological theorist and a leading theatre artist. The result is a vibrant dialogic writing that bridges the scholarly/poetic divide. In its unique integration of theory, narrative, and autobiography,Theatre/Archaeologybrings a new dimension to two burgeoning fields of inquiry.

Table of Contents

Figures	vii
Preface	xi
A project in performance	xii
An archaeological project	xiv
A joint project	xvii
Introduction	1	(1)
A Photograph, in black and white	2	(1)
A technical drawing	3	(1)
A video	3	(1)
A memory	4	(1)
Performance	5	(1)
Archaeological theory	6	(2)
These are the things that remain	8	(1)
Experiencing the past	9	(4)
Theatre archaeology	13	(55)
Performance	13	(15)
Archaeology	28	(25)
Theatre archaeology: convergences	53	(15)
Theatre and archaeology	68	(63)
The cyborg from archaic Greece to postmodernity: dramaturgies of sovereignty	70	(31)
Gododdin: the past in the present	101	(11)
Visiting the past: stories of heritage and authenticity	112	(7)
Monuments and morbid echoes: choreographing the prehistoric body	119	(12)
Theatre/archaeology	131	(48)
Landscape: walking	132	(15)
Cityscape: walking	147	(4)
Landscape: standing still	151	(11)
Esgair Fraith: a sedimentary map	162	(17)
Afterword and acknowledgements	179	(8)
Performances	187	(3)
Bibliography	190	(17)
Index	207