Performance Research Volume 29 Issue 8

In ‘On Exits and Endings’ contributors explore how rituals, performances and other creative acts negotiate, represent and frame exits and endings, especially when emotional attachment and responsibility are involved. They question what it might mean to exit – from a career, a life, a scene, a situation – to cut ties and move on. To walk away. As well as how exits are understood performatively, how they are analysed, responded to or interpreted. Additionally, they reflect on endings. What happens when something ceases to be, what remains and how might those left behind behave in the wake of this changed situation.