Invisible City

<p><em>The Invisible City</em> explores urban spaces from the perspective of a traveller writer and creator of theatre to illuminate how cities offer travellers and residents theatrical visions while also remaining mostly invisible beyond the limits of attention.</p><p>The book explores the city as both stage and content in three parts. Firstly it follows in pattern Italo Calvino's novel <i>Invisible Cities</i> wherein Marco Polo describes cities to the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan to produce a constellation of vignettes recalling individual cities through travel writing and engagement with artworks. Secondly Gillette traces the Teatro Potlach group and its ongoing immersive site-specific performance project Invisible Cities which has staged performances in dozens of cities across Europe and the Americas. The final part of the book offers useful exercises for artists and travellers interested in researching their own invisible cities.</p><p>Written for practitioners travellers students and thinkers interested in the city as site and source of performance <i>The Invisible City</i> mixes travelogue with criticism and cleverly combines philosophical meditations with theatrical pedagogy. </p>