Site Specific Theatre is a live art performance produced in unconventional environments. Of course a site specific piece could be produced in a traditional theatre, for example I would argue Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search on Author is a site specific text. The aim of this practice is to engage with the histories and peoples who have and are impacted by these environments with the ultimate goal being to reach and give voice to those who might not have access to traditional theatre. The recent classification “Immersive” to describe site specific work is misleading, as any theatre, when it is played at an outstanding level is immersive.
We abolish the stage and the auditorium and replace them by a single site, without partition or barrier of any kind, which will become the theater of the action. A direct communication will be re-established between the spectator and the spectacle, between the actor and the spectator, from the fact that the spectator, placed in the middle of the action is engulfed and physically affected by it.
Antonin Artaud, Theatre and its Double
Site Specific Theater
