Deindustrialising communities have called upon street theatre companies to re-animate public space and commemorate industrial heritage. How have these companies converted derelict factories into spaces of theatrical production? How do they connect their work to the industrial work that once occurred there? How do those connections manifest in theatrical events, and how do such events give shape and meaning to ongoing redevelopment projects? This book develops an understanding of the relationship between theatre and redevelopment that goes beyond accusations of gentrification or celebrations of radical resistance. Ultimately, Calder argues that deindustrialisation and redevelopment depend on theatrical events and performative acts to make ongoing change intelligible and navigable. Working memories brings together some of current theatre scholarship’s fundamental concerns while demonstrating the significance of those concerns to an interdisciplinary readership. This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license.

デイヴィッド・カルダーは、遺棄された工場が劇場へと変貌する過程を、単なる都市再開発の記録ではなく、魂の再生の物語として描き出しました。本書の核心は、冷徹な産業遺構に肉体的な表現が息を吹き込む瞬間の鮮烈さにあります。過去の労働の記憶と現代の表現が交錯する中で、いかにして都市の歴史を継承し、新たな意味を紡ぐべきかという深い問いを私たちに突きつけます。 開発か抵抗かという二項対立を超え、演劇が都市の変容を読み解く航海図になるという視点は極めて野心的です。舞台芸術が社会を彫刻し、目に見えない変化を可視化するプロセスを情熱的に解明する本書は、都市を愛する全ての人に、空間と記憶の新たな地平を見せてくれる一冊です。