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Studying European Theatre Audiences: The STEP City Study book cover

1st Edition

Studying European Theatre Audiences The STEP City Study

Edited By Joshua Edelman, Attila Szabó, Hedi-Liis Toome, Marline Lisette Wilders, Antine Zijlstra Copyright 2025
214 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book reports on one of the largest co-ordinated efforts to survey the theatrical audience experience: the City Study of the Project on European Theatre Systems, which conducted over 7000 surveys and dozens of interviews and focus groups with audience members from four mid-sized cities across Europe. This study aimed to capture the details of how audiences perceive and value theatre, and... Read more

Acknowledgement

 

  1. Introduction
  2. Chapter 1: The project and its goals
  3. Interlude 1: Portraits of four cities
  4. Chapter 2: The theatrical event: An art sociological framework
  5. Chapter 3: Positioning the STEP City research in the context of audience and reception research
  6. Chapter 4: The supply of theatre
  7. Interlude 2: What on earth is Kleinkunst
  8. Chapter 5: The City Survey: Quantitative audience and reception research methods
  9. Chapter 6: The City survey: Data management and comparative data analysis
  10. Chapter 7: The centre and the periphery: A case study from Debrecen
  11. Chapter 8: Qualitative research on theatre audiences: The second phase of the STEP City Study
  12. Interlude 3: Insights from theatre talks in Tyneside
  13. Conclusion
  14. Appendices
  15. Bibliography

Interlude 1

Interlude 2

Interlude 3

Index

Biography

Joshua Edelman is reader in drama and contemporary performance at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Attila Szabó is a theatre researcher and assistant professor based in Budapest, Hungary.

Hedi-Liis Toome is a lecturer of theatre studies at the University of Tartu.

Marline Lisette Wilders is assistant professor Arts in Society at the University of Groningen.

Antine Zijlstra works as Program maker Research and Innovation and researcher at the Academy of Education at the NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands).

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