{"product_id":"marking-time-performance-archaeology-and-the-city-exeter-performance-studies-9780859898768","title":"Marking Time Performance Archaeology and the City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city  Cardiff. In a series of five itineraries, it visits fifty sites where significant events occurred, setting performances within local topographical and social contexts, and in relation to a specific architecture and polity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e from reviews of\u003cem\u003e In Comes I \u003c\/em\u003e(published 2006):\u003cbr\u003e ‘…essential reading for anyone seriously interested in everything good that performance study can do at its best.’\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eContemporary Theatre Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘…\u003cem\u003eIn Comes I\u003c\/em\u003e is beautifully designed: the images, layout, and font transform the book into a kind of page-bound installation, a landscape to hold and move through. It feels good to look at and to touch.’\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eNew Theatre Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003cem\u003eMarking Time\u003c\/em\u003e is a publication that will be of great interest to researchers of site-specific performance. It offers a fascinating historical case study, demonstrating how the shifting topography of the city can provide spaces for performance but also seize, modify and reposition them.’ (\u003cstrong\u003eKris Darby\u003c\/strong\u003e, Studies in Theatre and Performance, Volume 34 (3), 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'As you’d expect of Mike Pearson, \u003cem\u003eMarking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city\u003c\/em\u003e is caringly done, with the devil in the detail. It’s a story of alternative theatre in Cardiff since the 1960s, divided into five ‘ itineraries’, in which Pearson moves through different parts of the city – from the University Assembly Hall to 47 Park Place to the Sherman Theatre, for instance – to trace instances of performance, and quietly celebrate their place in the lives of Cardiff and its inhabitants.' (\u003cstrong\u003eAndy Lavender\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor of Theatre and Performance, University of Surrey)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘an extraordinary book’ (\u003cstrong\u003eSilvija Jestrovic\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003eTheatre Research International¸Volume 40, Issue 2, 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMap of the book\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Cardiff, Performance, Premise, City, Archaeology\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNORTH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eUniversity Arts Building; University Main Building; University Assembly Hall; 47 Park Place; Sherman Theatre; Sherman Arena Theatre; Cathays Park; National Museum Wales; Park House, 20 Park Place; University Engineering Building\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEAST\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBridgend Street; Topaz Street; Ruby Street; Metal Street; Sanquahar Street; Moira Terrace; Adamsdown Cemetery; Howard Gardens; ‘The Vulcan’; ‘The Big Sleep’\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOUTH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWindsor Esplanade; 44\/46 James Street; Mount Stuart Square; 7 James Street; Wales Millennium Centre; Senedd\/Welsh Assembly Government; 126 Bute Street; Butetown; St Mary’s Church; Callaghan Square\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWEST\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHouse; Street; School; Llanover Hall; Chapter; Chapter yard; Chapter Theatre; The Gym; Cowbridge Road; ‘Llwyn yr Eos’\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCENTRAL\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eQueen Street East; Queen Street West; Hayes Island; Morgan Arcade; Caroline Street; Central Station; St Mary’s Street; Westgate Street; Cardiff Castle; Parks\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePostscripts: Theatre, Archaeology, City, Cardiff\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Exeter Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884813496663,"sku":"9780859898768","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/marking-time-performance-archaeology-and-the-city-exeter-performance-studies-9780859898768","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}