In Comes I explores performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. Mike Pearson is Professor of Performance Studies at University of Wales, Aberystwyth

In Comes I explores performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. The book reflects on performances past and present. Mike Pearson is Professor of Performance Studies at University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is a leading theatre artist, having worked both as director and performer in various theatre companies in Wales; he continues to create performances as a solo artist with German saxophonist Peter Brõtzmann, and with artist/designer Mike Brookes. He is co-author of Theatre/Archaeology (Routledge 2001). Series: Exeter Performance Studies.

In Comes I explores performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. The book reflects on performances past and present, taking the form of a series of excursions into the agricultural landscape of eastern England, and drawing from archaeology, geomorphology, folklore, and local and family history. Mike Pearson, a leading theatre artist and solo-performer, In Comes I explores performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place.

Submitted for publication in Folk Music Journal. 1. In Comes I : Performance, Memory and Landscape. Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2007

It includes extensive coverage of folklore topics, showing how traditions work, and what they mean to the participants and performers. Submitted for publication in Folk Music Journal. Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2007.

In Comes I : Performance, Memory and Landscape. Exeter Performance Studies (Paperback)

In Comes I : Performance, Memory and Landscape. Exeter Performance Studies (Paperback). By (author) Mike Pearson. Mike Pearson, a leading theatre artist and solo-performer, returns to the landscape of his childhood - off the beaten track in Lincolnshire - and uses it as a mnemonic to reflect widely upon performance theory and practice. Rather than focusing on author, period and genre as is conventional in the study of drama, the book takes region as its optic, acknowledging the affective ties between people and place.

In Comes I is about performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. The book reflects on performances past and present, taking the form of a series of excursions in the agricultural landscape of eastern England, and drawing from archaeology, geomorphology, folklore, local and family history.

Theatrical performance is always live and therefore part of that influencing present.

1 Freddie Rokem, Performing History, Theatrical Representations of the past in Contemporary Theatre (Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2000), p. 9 2 Mike Pearson, ‘In Comes I’: Performance, Memory and Landscape (Exeter . 7 Rokem, p. 6 8 Tony Judt (1998, 58), in Attilo Favorini, Memory in Play (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), p. 257 9 Rokem, p. 9 10 Will Hammond and Dan Steward, Verbatim Verbatim (London: Oberon Books, 2008), p. 10 11 Richard Curtis, ‘Spielberg Took me on the Ride of my Life’, London Evening Standard, 2. 2. Theatrical performance is always live and therefore part of that influencing present.

In Comes I' explores performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. Exeter Performance Studies. University of Exeter Press. Mike Pearson, a leading theatre artist and solo-performer, returns to the landscape of his childhood – off the beaten track in Lincolnshire – and uses it as a mnemonic to reflect widely upon performance theory and practice.

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Mike Pearson, ‘In Comes I’: Performance, Memory, and Landscape. Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-0-85989-788-4. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2007. Recommend this journal.