Performing Heritage Research, Practice and Innovation in Museum Theatre and Live Interpretation

by Jackson, Anthony; Kidd, Jenny

• ISBN13: 9780719081590
• ISBN10: 0719081599
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-17
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR

Summary

Performing Heritage is the first book to bring together the range of voices, debates and practices that constitute the fields of museum theatre and live interpretation. Inspiring and challenging in its scope and level of debate, Performing Heritage crosses the disciplines of performance and museum/heritage studies and offers remarkable and timely insights into the processes, outcomes and potential of this rich and rapidly developing practice and in a variety of international contexts. The book productively brings together academic research and professional practice, and will be essential reading for all those interested in, and concerned with the future of, 'heritage' and its interpretation.

Author Biography

Anthony Jackson is Emeritus Professor of Educational Theatre at the University of Manchester Jenny Kidd is Lecturer in Cultural Policy at City University, London

Table of Contents

List of illustrations * List of tables and diagrams * Introduction -- Anthony Jackson and Jenny Kidd * Engaging the audience: negotiating performance in the museum -- Anthony Jackson * ‘Watching me, watching you’: performance and performativity in the museum -- Helen Rees Leahy * Creating heritage experiences through architecture -- Alke Gröppel-Wegener * The space of museum theatre: a framework for performing heritage -- Paul Johnson * The ‘Doing’ of Heritage: heritage as performance -- Laurajane Smith * Intangible Heritage and the performance of identity -- Marilena Alivizatou * Authenticity and metaphor: displaying Intangible Human Remains in museum theatre -- Anna Farthing *  Interpreting Msinsi: culture, tourism and story-telling in the Isimangaliso Wetland Park -- Emma Durden and Nicky du Plessis * Nostalgia for the future of the past -- Baz Kershaw * Performing Cultural Heritage: an analysis of ‘Weaving Paths’ -- Royona Mitra * A la Ronde – eccentricity, heritage and the end of the world -- Phil Smith * Triangle’s Immersive Museum Theatre: performativity, historical interpretation and research in-role -- Richard Talbot and Norwood Andrews * Mirror Neurons and Simulation: the role of the spectator in museum theatre -- Catherine Hughes * ‘The costume of openness’: participatory performance in heritage environments -- Jenny Kidd * Performing Human Rights: engaging visitors in dialogue at two historic site Museums of Conscience -- Joel Chalfen *  “For a little road it is not.  For it is a great road; it is long”: performing heritage for development in the Cape -- Mark Fleishman * APPENDIX - The Performance, Learning and Heritage project * REFERENCES * NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS