This article explores how performance and character can be used to represent the lives of real women in spaces of heritage. It focuses on two different site-specific performances created by the author in the South Ayrshire region of Scotland: CauseWay: The Story of the Alloway Suffragettes and In Hidden Spaces: The Untold Stories of the Women of Rozelle House. These were created with a practice-as-research methodology and aim to offer new models for the use of character in site-specific performance practice. The article explores the variety of methods and techniques used, including verbatim writing, spatial exploration, and Herstorical research, in order to demonstrate the ways in which women’s narratives were represented in a theoretically informed, site-specific manner. Drawing on Phil Smith’s mythogeography, and responding to Laurajane Smith’s work on gender and heritage, the conflicting tensions of identity, performance, and authenticity are drawn together to offer flexible characterization as a new model for the creation of feminist heritage performance. Victoria Bianchi is a theatre-maker and academic in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. Her work explores the relationship between space, feminism, and identity. She has written and performed work for the National Trust for Scotland, Camden People’s Theatre, and Assembly at Edinburgh, among other institutions.

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灵活的表征：遗产地的历史表演

本文探讨了如何使用表演和性格来代表遗产空间中真实女性的生活。它侧重于作者在苏格兰南艾尔郡地区创作的两种不同的特定地点表演：CauseWay：Alloway Suffragettes 的故事和在隐藏的空间：罗泽尔之家女性的不为人知的故事。这些是用实践即研究的方法创建的，旨在为在特定地点的表演实践中使用角色提供新的模型。本文探讨了所使用的各种方法和技术，包括逐字书写、空间探索和历史研究，以展示女性叙事以理论上有依据的、特定于地点的方式呈现的方式。借鉴菲尔·史密斯的神话地理学，并回应劳拉简·史密斯关于性别和遗产的工作，身份、表演和真实性之间相互冲突的张力被结合在一起，为创造女权主义遗产表演的新模式提供灵活的表征。Victoria Bianchi 是格拉斯哥大学教育学院的戏剧制作人和学者。她的作品探讨了空间、女权主义和身份之间的关系。她曾为苏格兰国民信托、卡姆登人民剧院和爱丁堡议会等机构写作和演出。