Book Review: Performing Heritage: Research, Practice and Innovation in Museum Theatre and Live Interpretation by Anthony Jackson and Jenny Kidd (eds)

Abstract

This useful text brings together recent thinking about museum theatre and the performance of heritage, offering a range of international case studies to its readers as evidence of the discipline’s usefulness in interpreting the past for visitors. Described as ‘inspiring and challenging’, the book successfully delivers a wide discourse on the definition and value of performance and heritage and relates them to the ‘new museology’, recognising the role of the audience/visitor in constructing their own meaning.

Keywords

• living history
• theatre
• interpretation
• palaeolithic
• mesolithic
• neolithic
• chalcolithic
• bronze age
• iron age
• roman era
• viking age
• early middle ages
• late middle ages
• newer era
• newest era
• united kingdom
• book
• review