Marking Time

from reviews of In Comes I (published 2006):
'...essential reading for anyone seriously interested in everything good that performance study can do at its best.'
Contemporary Theatre Review

'...In Comes I is beautifully designed: the images, layout, and font transform the book into a kind of page-bound installation, a landscape to hold and move through. It feels good to look at and to touch.'
New Theatre Quarterly

'Marking Time is a publication that will be of great interest to researchers of site-specific performance. It offers a fascinating historical case study, demonstrating how the shifting topography of the city can provide spaces for performance but also seize, modify and reposition them.' (Kris Darby, Studies in Theatre and Performance, Volume 34 (3), 2014)

'As you'd expect of Mike Pearson, Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city is caringly done, with the devil in the detail. It's a story of alternative theatre in Cardiff since the 1960s, divided into five ' itineraries', in which Pearson moves through different parts of the city - from the University Assembly Hall to 47 Park Place to the Sherman Theatre, for instance - to trace instances of performance, and quietly celebrate their place in the lives of Cardiff and its inhabitants.' (Andy Lavender, Professor of Theatre and Performance, University of Surrey)

'an extraordinary book' (Silvija Jestrovic, Theatre Research International?Volume 40, Issue 2, 2015)