Performing heritage

Anthony Jackson is Emeritus Professor of Educational Theatre at The University of Manchester|Jenny Kidd is Lecturer in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University.

• Introduction - Anthony Jackson and Jenny Kidd1. Engaging the audience: negotiating performance in the museum - Anthony Jackson2. ‘Watching me, watching you’: performance and performativity in the museum - Helen Rees Leahy 3. Creating heritage experiences through architecture - Alke Gröppel-Wegener4. The space of museum theatre: a framework for performing heritage - Paul Johnson5. The ‘Doing’ of Heritage: heritage as performance - Laurajane Smith6. Intangible Heritage and the performance of identity - Marilena Alivizatou7. Authenticity and metaphor: displaying Intangible Human Remains in museum theatre - Anna Farthing8. Interpreting Msinsi: culture, tourism and story-telling in the Isimangaliso Wetland Park - Emma Durden and Nicky du Plessis9. Nostalgia for the future of the past - Baz Kershaw10. Performing Cultural Heritage: an analysis of ‘Weaving Paths’ - Royona Mitra11. A la Ronde - eccentricity, heritage and the end of the world - Phil Smith12. Triangle’s Immersive Museum Theatre: performativity, historical interpretation and research in-role - Richard Talbot and Norwood Andrews13. 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 Kidd15. Performing Human Rights: engaging visitors in dialogue at two historic site Museums of Conscience - Joel Chalfen16. “For a little road it is not. For it is a great road; it is long”: performing heritage for development in the Cape - Mark FleishmanAppendix - The Performance, Learning and Heritage project

This 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.