1st Edition

Theatre Institutions in Crisis European Perspectives

Edited By Christopher Balme, Tony Fisher Copyright 2021
240 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Theatre Institutions in Crisis examines how theatre in Europe is beset by a crisis on an institutional level and the pressing need for robust research into the complex configuration of factors at work that are leading to significant shifts in the way theatre is understood, organised, delivered, and received. Balme and Fisher bring together scholars from different disciplines and countries... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

 

  1. Publics
  2. Chapter 1 Struggles of singularised communities in German theatre: The ‘culture war’ around the Berlin Volksbühne

    Peter Boenisch (University of Aarhus)

    Chapter 2 Public (Re) Assembly and Crisis Dramaturgy

    Shannon Jackson (UC Berkley)

    Chapter 3 Re-enacting the Crisis of Democracy in Milo Rau’s General Assembly

    Ramona Mosse (FU Berlin)

    Chapter 4 Fugitive Transformations of Performance Practice in Landscapes of Crisis

    Gigi Argyropoulou (Mavili collective Athens)

  3. Funding and labour
  4. Chapter 5 Justifying Theatre and its Funding after 2008

    Joshua Edelman (Manchester Met)

    Chapter 6 Dutch Theatre Politics in Crisis?

    Quirijn Lennert van den Hoogen (Groningen University)

    Chapter 7 Crisis in Funding Policies. The Paradox of National Theatres and the Dilemma of Evaluating Theatre in Italy

    Livia Cavaglieri (University of Genova)

    Chapter 8 The Theatrical Employment System in Crisis? How Working Conditions Are Changing in Theatre and Elsewhere

    Axel Haunschild (University of Hannover)

     

  5. Post-Socialism
  6. Chapter 9 Crisis? Czech Theatre after 1989

    Radka Kunderová

    Chapter 10 Artistic Freedom — State Control — Democracy: Oliver Frljićʼs Theatre Work in Croatia and Poland as an Indicator of Repressive Cultural Policy

    Danijela Weber-Kapusta (LMU Munich)

    Chapter 11 Creating New Theatres during the Economic Crisis: The Case of Estonia

    Hedi-Lis Toome and Anneli Saro (University of Tartu)

    Chapter 12 Cultural Struggles in Slovenian Institutional and Independent Theatre

    Maja Šorli and Zala Dobovšek (University of Ljubljana)

  7. Independent theatre scene

Chapter 13 Promises and Side Effects: The Frankfurt Theatre Crisis of the 1990s — A Case Study

Lorenz Aggermann (University of Giessen)

Chapter 14 Potential, Need, Risk. On Control and Subjectification in Contemporary Production Networks

Georg Döcker (University of Giessen)

Chapter 15 Theatre Crisis, Local Farce, or Institutional Change? The Controversy Surrounding the Munich Kammerspiele 2018 from an Institutional Logics Perspective

Bianca Michaels (LMU Munich)

Index

Biography

Christopher Balme is professor of theatre and performance studies at LMU Munich, Germany.

Tony Fisher is a reader in theatre and philosophy and Associate Director of Research at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK.