Resetting the stage : : public theatre between the market and democracy / / Dragan Klaic.
Commercial theatre is thriving across Europe, while public theatre has suffered under changing patterns of cultural consumption - as well as sharp reductions in government subsidies for the arts. At a time when the rationale behind these subsidies is being widely reexamined, it has never been more i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol, UK ;, Chicago, USA : : Intellect Ltd,, 2012. ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; PART I: A Blurred Role; Chapter 1: Public and Commercial Theatre: Distinct and Enmeshed; The ensemble model; Public subsidies ensure cultural respectability; Crisis - a permanent condition or a discursive image?; A thriving commercial theatre; The specific merits of public theatre; Chapter 2: Public Theatre: Challenges and Responses; Rising costs, limited compensation; Increasing own income; A minority leisure option; Altered urban demography; Insufficient coping solutions
- Chapter 3: Production Models: Reps, Groups and Production HousesRepertory theatre: Limitations and adjustments; Repertory companies outlive communism; Groups: An ethos of innovation; Transformation dynamics; Chapter 4: The Specific Offer of Public Theatre; Making sense of classical drama; Stimulating new playwriting; Post-dramatic theatre; Opera and music theatre: Confronting elitism; Varieties of dance; Theatre for children and young people; Other theatre forms; PART II: Asserting Own Distinction; Chapter 5: Programming Strategies; A disorienting abundance; Prompting name recognition
- Programming in larger templatesChapter 6: A Sense of Place; Failed reforms, some accomplishments; A matter of context; Space markers; Big or small?; Newly built or recycled?; Away from the theatre; Chapter 7: Finding the Audience, Making the Audience; Audiences: Limited, elusive and unstable; Commitment to education; Outreach strategies; Communication: Creating own media outlets; Chapter 8: Theatre in a Globalised World; The changing role of festivals; International cooperation in the performing arts; An emerging European cultural space; Trans-European vistas; An antidote to complacency
- Chapter 9: Leadership, Governance and Cultural PolicyLeadership: Fantasies of a cultural Superman; Governance matters: Boards safeguarding autonomy; Minima moralia for a public theatre system; Funding: Decision-makers and their criteria; Public theatre and public culture; In Place of an Epilogue: The Prospects for Public Theatre in Europe; Sources; About the Author; Afterword; Back Cover