ABSTRACT
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 across Europe to examine what factors can be said to be most common to the institutional crisis of European theatre today. The methods employed are drawn from systems theory, social-scientific approaches, economics and statistics, theatre and performance, and other interpretative approaches (hermeneutics), and labour studies.
This book will be of great interest to researchers, students, and practitioners working in the fields of performance and theatre studies. It will be particularly relevant to researchers with a particular interest in European theatre and its networks.
Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|56 pages
Publics
chapter 1|14 pages
Struggles of singularised communities in German theatre
part 2|49 pages
Funding and labour
chapter 7|14 pages
Crisis in funding policies
chapter 8|11 pages
The theatrical employment system in crisis?
part 3|47 pages
Post-socialism
chapter 10|10 pages
Artistic freedom—state control—democracy
part 4|43 pages
Independent theatre scene