Where do we find the dead Do the dead appear in our dreams What is it like to play dead This book is an exciting exploration of the relationship between death and play in performance. Exploring a range of artists and creative disciplines that remember personify and reimagine the dead it playfully unpacks the psychoanalytic concepts of the Death Drive Desire and the Uncanny as a way of thinking about performance. Embodying the Dead draws on work of Gary Winters and Claire Hind and the various qu