ABSTRACT
Across the cultural sector, there has been a wholesale re-appraisal of the role and status of ‘users’, and an increase in practices deemed participatory. This is the case for museums also, where the rhetoric of co-production and consultation is now common. This chapter examines ways in which this rhetoric is being actualized in the space of heritage performance – increasingly participatory, and requiring of ‘audiences’ a willingness to give of themselves to the narrative in ways previously unimagined.
