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A scenography workshop on campus in Hyderabad: Romeo, Juliet and the Security Guard

ABSTRACT This article discusses a workshop conducted with postgraduate students at the University of Hyderabad in the central state of Andhra Pradesh, India, that developed into a production: Romeo, Juliet and the Security Guard. The workshop was a practice-based investigation of the spatial theories of social geographer Doreen Massey, playing on and with Massey's notion of the relational and unstable properties of place as a starting point for new work. This article isolates three moments from the project to illuminate Massey's ideas in relation to live performance and to demonstrate how the workshop evolved into a socially engaged site-based production. It considers the value of Massey's ideas on space, place and displacement in the broader context of scenography and performance composition.