By Mike Pearson
Theatre/Archaeology is a superb and provocative problem to disciplinary perform and highbrow barriers. It brings jointly radical proposals in either archaeological and function conception to facilitate a brand new means of investigating panorama and cityscape, and notions of physicality, stumble upon, web site and context.
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They rely, for their conception and their interpretation, upon the complex coexistence, superimposition and interpenetration of a number of narratives and architectures, historical and contemporary, of two basic orders: that which is of the site, its fixtures and fittings, and that which is brought to the site, the performance and its scenography: of that which pre-exits the work and that which is of the work: of the past and of the present. They are inseparable from their sites, the only contexts within which they are intelligible.
Archaeological practice indicates not only ways in which we might work with the remains of past performance, creating contemporary meaning in the present, it also enables us to think provocatively about the ways in which we might create the documents of current work. Rather than pretending to be a final and complete account of things, a closure, the performance document, an equivalent of the dramatic text, might be in itself equally fragmentary, partial and encouraging of interpretation. It may ultimately be more appropriate to discuss performance (particularly devised performance) through archaeological rather than literary means, with performance as a kind of prehistory of scripted drama, and to imagine the retrieval and recontextualisation of performance as constituting a theatre archaeology.
And I first decided to look at the ways we picture the past. But the book which was to be called Picturing the Past evolved into something broader, ultimately an investigation into what I have come to see as some root metaphors of modernity. Experiencing the Past (Shanks 1992a) is about how fragments are left behind and pieced together. It is about the indeterminacy of events and how we deal with this, from memory to scientific reconstruction to legal adjudication to the interpretive practices of an archaeological detective.