Includes bibliographical references and index.

The performance archive: detritus or historical record? / Glen Mcillivray -- Tales still to be told: indigenous Australian theatre practice and the archive / Maryrose Casey -- The "not-yet archive" of sidetrack performance group / Tom Burvill and Mark Seton -- (Re)constructing the archive: a regional perspective on performance histories / Gillian Arrighi and David Watt -- More is less: public profile and academic representation in contemporary British theatre / John Bennett -- Accidents of survival: finding a place in the V&A's theatre and performance archives / Catherine Haill -- Feeling for dancing hidden in the archives of the dead / Amanda Card -- Performance, documentation and the archive within the institution / Matthew Reason, Jules Dorey Richmond, Victoria Gray, Nathan Walker -- Still not seen: photography and the archive under the bed / Glen McGillivray -- Buried treasure: the lidded box and its function / Kim Durban -- Performance as palimpsest: leaving a trace memory in site-specific performance / Lisa Warrington -- Recording forbidden careers: nineteenth-century amateur theatricals / Eileen Curley.

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