Performance, Transport and Mobility

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Fiona Wilkie

   Pages 1-17

3. ‘Three miles an hour’: Pedestrian Travel

   • Fiona Wilkie

   Pages 18-45

4. ‘Nothing is moving’: Railway Travel

   • Fiona Wilkie

   Pages 46-82

5. ‘Motorvating’: Road Travel

   • Fiona Wilkie

   Pages 83-119

6. ‘A place without a place’: Boat Travel

   • Fiona Wilkie

   Pages 120-151

7. ‘Alone at last’: Air Travel

   • Fiona Wilkie

   Pages 152-181

8. Back Matter

   Pages 182-211

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Performance, Transport and Mobility is an investigation into how performance moves, how it engages with ideas about movement, and how it potentially shapes our experiences of movement. Using a critical framework drawn from the 'mobility turn' in the social sciences, it analyses a range of performances that explore what it means to be in transit.

• performance and transport
• performance theory
• movement in performance
• bibliography
• experience
• mobility
• performance

“The prose is fresh and vivid, inviting the reader to imagine travelling alongside the artists. … The book makes a convincing case for mobility as an important way of understanding contemporary performance and, more importantly, for performance as a way of understanding how we move and are moved through the world.” (Kyle Gillette, Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 28 (2), June, 2018)

'Fiona Wilkie's work in the past has contributed massively to our understanding of site specificity. In this wonderful new publication, she turns her attention to what in sociology and geography is known as the 'mobilities turn', and traces its impact in and on contemporary performance practice. The book is brilliantly researched and beautifully written; it is also timely, original and fascinating. It expands the remit of theatre and performance studies, and makes an important contribution to interdisciplinary knowledge and exchange. It can't recommend it enough.' - Carl Lavery, University of Glasgow, UK

• University of Roehampton, UK

  Fiona Wilkie

Fiona Wilkie is Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her work on various aspects of mobility, place and site-specific performance has been published in a number of books and journals including Contemporary Theatre Review, TDR and Blackwell's Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama (2008).

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