@article{68623fbf286a4b6194d47e743e349955,
title = "It's a ghost: The uncanny in rural Welsh identity",
abstract = "The AHRC-funded project led by Sally Mackey at the Central School of Speech and Drama, `Challenging Concepts of “Liquid“ Place through Performing Practices in Community Contexts', involves performative responses to an interrogation of place, identity and dislocation. The author is one of the co-investigators working on this enquiry. Cyrff Ystwyth has produced work by the learning-disabled choreographer Adrian Jones over several years. Jones's work is a persistent assertion of identity shaped by rural agricultural life. This article is a response to material emerging through the devising process which forms a part of this three-year research project. Adrian Jones's new work, `Capel: The Lights are On', is concerned with imagery of home and family. In rehearsal a new theme emerged; Jones announced the presence of a ghost. The article considers how this sudden announcement resonates with Welsh identity. The author proposes that the work is a personal, emotionally charged response to identity that is grounded in material experiences of life in rural Wales. Jones's interest in the haunted coincides with a particular construct of Welshness that is inscribed with a mixture of history, myth and religion.",
keywords = "rural Wales place uncanny identity emotion Cyrff Ystwyth, rural Wales, place, uncanny, identity, emotion, Cyrff Ystwyth",
author = "Ames, {Margaret Patricia}",
year = "2013",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1386/stap.33.1.29_1",
language = "English",
volume = "33",
pages = "29--38",
journal = "Studies in Theatre and Performance",
issn = "1468-2761",
publisher = "Taylor & Francis",
number = "1",
}