What do you perceive to be the challenges and/or opportunities for your work when applied to place/site and ‘communities’?

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Notes

^∗Department of Drama, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, UK. Email: [email protected] A DVDRom documenting the work discussed in this response will belodged with the Arts Humanities Data Service later this year.

^∗Corresponding author. Performance Studies Division, University of Northampton, St George's Avenue, Northampton NN2 6JD, UK. Email: [email protected]

^∗Department of Humanities Arts and Languages, London Metropolitan University, 166–220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB, UK. Email: [email protected]

^∗School of Performance & Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, Bretton Campus, West Bretton, Wakefield WF4 4LG, UK. Email: [email protected]

^∗University of Exeter, UK. Email: [email protected]

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