ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes a new approach to the documentation and understanding of past performance, focusing upon renowned Welsh theatre company Brith Gof’s D.O.A. (1993), for which there is no extant video record. The concept is to take one performer’s written account of the first few minutes of the production and then to annotate, expand and reconcile it with other surviving accounts, through the use of extensive and detailed footnotes: applying to contemporary devised performance an approach familiar in the glossing of dramatic texts; and offering a multi-vocal form of account that includes the notes and memories of the work’s creators.
