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    Scrapbooks, snapshots and memorabilia : hidden archives of performance

    McGillivray, Glen, Scrapbooks, snapshots and memorabilia : hidden archives of performance, Peter Lang, Bern ; New York : 2011 Abstract Scrapbooks, Snapshots and Memorabilia: Hidden Archives of Performance asks the questions: What constitutes an archive? What is worthy of being archived? And who decides? Performances are ephemeral, so archival questions of selection and appraisal determine which performances will be remembered by history and which will not. The essays in this collection each explore a different facet of the ephemerality of performance, and the traces it leaves behind: from photographic stills of actors or sets; draft scripts and production notes, theatre programs and reviews; the language used to evoke the experience…