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).

Phil Smith is a unique and eclectic guide with a vast knowledge of site-specific performance. In this book he conveys this knowledge in such a way that inspires and playfully encourages us to find our own approach to making this kind of performance, with confidence, in his guidance.

• List of IllustrationsArriving: a fluid sort of prologuePart I: Finding a site1.Why make SiteSpecific Performance?2.Drifting and quest: in search of sites3.Journey performances4.What is a site?Part II: Generating Performance5.Visiting your site6.Site Aesthetics7.Personae, presences, charactersPart III: Shaping A Production8.Dramaturgy9. Scenographies and Enchanted Objects10. Communities, Audiences and Immersion11. Technology12.Site EtiquetteBibliography