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Editorial [Special Issue of Contemporary Theatre Review on Site-Specificity and Mobility]

This is an example of an output that helps to maintain and extend the scholarly infrastructure for theatre studies. Working with Joanne Tompkins (University of Queensland, Brisbane), the researcher guest-edited this special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review. Birch and Tompkins developed the themes for the issue, which centres around the mobility turn in site-specific performance.

As the researcher explains in her editorial: ‘The authors in this collection explore how the action of moving from place to place invites a relational response to place, whether through walking, dancing or travelling on a tram’. A ‘documents’ section provides examples of relevant artistic research in this area.

This special issue picks up themes developed in Birch’s collection ‘Performing Site-Specific Theatre Politics, Place, Practice’, also co-edited with Tompkins (see Birch1).

(The DOI provided refers to the editorial only.)