Mike Pearson Coriolanus

Coriolan/us, Brecht, site and intervention

Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes are directing another wonderful and extraordinary site specific production of a classic dramatic text. A couple of years ago it was Aeschylus’s Persians set in a simulation of a German village used for military training in the Brecon Beacons of Wales [Link]. Currently running is Coriolan/us – a hybrid of…

in memoriam

Archaeology in the Making is in production – [Link] I am editor with Bill Rathje and Chris Witmore. With many friends and colleagues we explore the human face of archaeology. Chris and I have added a post script to the Preface about Bill Rathje and Lew Binford. Lew Binford passed away during the final preparation…

Olympics opening – (in)tangible heritage

London – the opening of the 30th Olympiad A bucolic pastoral green and pleasant land succumbing to dark satanic mills, in William Blake’s vision, homage also to Tolkein’s pitting of Hobbiton against Isengard’s tower; Shakespeare’s Tempest declaimed by Brunel on the slopes of a druidic oak-toppped Glastonbury Tor; dreams of Peter Pan and Mary Poppins;…