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

Anthony Jackson is Emeritus Professor of Educational Theatre at the University of Manchester.

List of illustrations
List of tables and diagrams
Introduction; 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
References
Notes on Contributor

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