Brunel Seminars 010: Mike Pearson| 'Fighting in Built-Up Areas': staging The Persians with the British Army"

Wednesday November 10 2010 Mike Pearson, University of Plymouth 'Fighting in Built-Up Areas': staging The Persians with the British Army" This seminar will reflect upon matters of archaeology, landscape and site-specificity theory and practice in relation to the production of Aeschylus's The Persians that Mike Pearson directed in August for the newly-founded National Theatre Wales. Mike Pearson studied archaeology in University College, Cardiff (1968–71). He was a member of R.A.T. Theatre (1972–3) and an artistic director of Cardiff Laboratory Theatre (1973–80) and Brith Gof (1981–97). He continues to make performance as a solo artist and in collaboration with artist/designer Mike Brookes as Pearson/Brookes (1997–present). In August 2010 he directed a site-specific production of Aeschylus’s The Persians for National Theatre Wales on the military training ranges in mid-Wales. He is co-author with Michael Shanks of Theatre/Archaeology (2001) and author of In Comes I: Performance, Memory and Landscape (2006) and Site-Specific Performance (2010). The monograph: All that remains: an imperfect archaeology of the Mickery Theatre, Amsterdam is forthcoming in 2010. He is currently Professor of Performance Studies, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University. The Centre broadcasts selected Performance Research Seminars live from the Brunel Drama Studio - making them available to anyone in the world interested in the subject. Johannes Birringer and Marlon Barrios Solano are co-producing the talks and discussions as live webcasts webcast live on dance tech net TV . The partnership between the Centre and dance-techTV, is an experiment in collaborative video broadcasting (the channel is dedicated to interdisciplinary explorations of the performance of movement. The channel allows worldwide 24/7 linear broadcasting of selected programs, LIVE streaming and Video On-demand).

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