Site-specific Shakespeare / Benjamin Blyth

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blyth, Ben, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare performance

Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare performance, 2516-0117

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.

Site-specific theater.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"From ruined convents to rooftop gardens, parking lots to Zoom calls, theatre practitioners around the world are staging Shakespeare in a variety of unconventional and unexpected spaces. Drawing on practitioner interviews, case studies, and ten years of personal experience, this Element argues site-specific theatre-makers leverage 'tactical intelligence' in Shakespeare performance: a capacity for theatrical meaning-making through creative responses to spatial constraints, rather than strategic control. Organised around a heuristic of five types of 'site'– Revenant, Found, Shifting, Green, and Viral – with a conclusion that examines the challenges facing 'Future Sites' – the Element reveals a 'Guerrilla Shakespeare' in global site-specific performance. This is Shakespeare with a 'punk', 'pirate', 'bodega' spirit, where economic precarity is met with creative freedom and institutional barriers yield to democratic accessibility"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Revenant sites

Found sites

Shifting sites

Green sites

Viral sites

Future sites

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed July 16, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Blyth, Benjamin Site-specific Shakespeare

ISBN:

9781009617376

1009617370

9781009617345

1009617346

OCLC:

1584438566

Publisher Number:

CIPO000392219

CIPO000406775

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license