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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis collection both consolidates and moves forward the previously somewhat fragmented discussion on the relationship between heritage and performance.'
Stephen Bottoms, Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 29/02/2012
'an exciting and worthwhile book.'
Jessica Nakamura, TDR: The Drama Review 57:2, Summer 2013
...the book successfully delivers a wide discourse on the definition and value of performance and heritage and relates them to the 'new museology', recognising the role of the audience/visitor in constructing their own meaning.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction - Anthony Jackson and Jenny Kidd
1. Engaging the audience: negotiating performance in the museum - Anthony Jackson
2. ‘Watching me, watching you’: performance and performativity in the museum - Helen Rees Leahy
3. Creating heritage experiences through architecture - Alke Gröppel-Wegener
4. The space of museum theatre: a framework for performing heritage - Paul Johnson
5. The ‘Doing’ of Heritage: heritage as performance - Laurajane Smith
6. Intangible Heritage and the performance of identity - Marilena Alivizatou
7. Authenticity and metaphor: displaying Intangible Human Remains in museum theatre - Anna Farthing
8. Interpreting Msinsi: culture, tourism and story-telling in the Isimangaliso Wetland Park - Emma Durden and Nicky du Plessis
9. Nostalgia for the future of the past - Baz Kershaw
10. Performing Cultural Heritage: an analysis of ‘Weaving Paths’ - Royona Mitra
11. A la Ronde - eccentricity, heritage and the end of the world - Phil Smith
12. Triangle’s Immersive Museum Theatre: performativity, historical interpretation and research in-role - Richard Talbot and Norwood Andrews
13. Mirror Neurons and Simulation: the role of the spectator in museum theatre - Catherine Hughes
14. ‘The costume of openness’: participatory performance in heritage environments - Jenny Kidd
15. Performing Human Rights: engaging visitors in dialogue at two historic site Museums of Conscience - Joel Chalfen
16. “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
