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“In Comes I”: Performance, Memory and Landscape
by Mike Pearson
University of Exeter Press
PUBLISHED DECEMBER 2006
paperback £17.99; hardback £50.00
“In Comes I” proposes a wholly original approach to the study of
performance. Drawing from archaeology, geomorphology, folklore, local and
family history, it challenges disciplinary boundaries and scholarly
conventions.
The author returns to the landscape of his childhood and uses it as
mnemonic for his wide-ranging reflections on performance theory and
practice. A series of excursions in eastern England weave together themes
of performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place.
Evoking moments from different periods over the last 200 years, forming
them into an asynchronous juxtaposition, attempting to create a deep
map . . . this book serves as a guide through landscapes real or imagined,
the texts catalysing memories and reminiscences in acts of biographical
wandering.
Mike Pearson, Professor of Performance Studies at University of Wales,
Aberystwyth, is a leading theatre artist and solo-performer.
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