The acting out of different identities and roles. Thrift, for example, in I. Cook et al., eds (2000) writes of the possibilities of drawing on ‘street theatre, community theatre, [and] legislative theatre’. Eyerman (2004) Thesis Eleven, 79, 25 argues that performance implies a notion that action is also symbolic, public as well as social. When we see that social actions and practices are performances we are better able to understand that they are open to interpretation; we can see how people seek to create particular spatialized identities and spaces, and how these might change with different performances. Because of this, Latham (2003) Env. & Plan. A 35, 11 argues that reframing the research process as a performance can produce new processes and new insights.