Theatre and Museums

SUSAN BENNETT is University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the editor of Feminist Theatre & Performance and the author of Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception (now in its second edition) and Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past.

'A provocative and surprising book, which explores what performance can tell us about how a visitor interacts with a museum collection, and how the archive can be embodied and re-enacted through performance. This book develops a range of theories from performance studies, heritage studies and beyond, and applies them to and extends them through a variety of illuminating case studies.' - Paul Johnson, University of Wolverhampton, UK

• Series Editors' PrefaceIntroductionFrom Display to ExperienceRe-performanceTheatre in the Museum: Collection as PerformanceThe Experiential MuseumPerformance as Collection: Repertoire in the MuseumConclusion: Re-performance MattersFurther ReadingWorks CitedIndex.