in situ: Life in Art

Reflective Ethnography, 2025

I was commissioned by the directors of in situ: theatre company to create a book that responded to their archival material. The company’s work since 2000, has been about experimental, multi-focal, environmental theatre and wanted the outcome to reflect the essence of their work.

The book, simply named in situ: Life in Art, explores themes in their work of people, place, words, voice, bodies and ghosts - the aspects of their practice that carve their vision into the world. I combined my own commissioned photography with photographic records they had collected.

As creatives, they experiment with the classics, Shakespeare, mythology and Richard Spaul’s modern translations and adaptations of some of these texts, weaving together unique experience for both the audience, and the performers. Pushing the boundary of what theatre is, in situ: honours the avant-garde and the unseen.