Resetting the Stage Public Theatre Between the Market and Democracy / Dragon Klaic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klaic, Dragon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Commercial theatre is thriving across Europe and the UK, while public theatre has suffered under changing patterns of cultural consumptionâ€"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 important for public theatre to demonstrate its continued merit. In Resetting the Stage, Dragan Klaic argues convincingly that, in an increasingly crowded market of cultural goods, public theatre is best served not by imitating its much larger commercial counterpart, but by asserting its artistic distinctiveness and the considerable benefit this confers on the public.

Contents:

Part I A Blurred Role 01

Chapter 1 Public and Commercial Theatre: Distinct and Enmeshed 03

The ensemble model 06

Public subsidies ensure cultural respectability 07

Crisis - a permanent condition or a discursive image? 09

A thriving commercial theatre 10

The specific merits of public theatre 14

Chapter 2 Public Theatre: Challenges and Responses 19

Rising costs, limited compensation 21

Increasing own income 23

A minority leisure option 26

Altered urban demography 29

Insufficient coping solutions 31

Chapter 3 Production Models: Reps, Groups and Production Houses 35

Repertory theatre: Limitations and adjustments 37

Repertory companies outlive communism 40

Groups: An ethos of innovation 44

Transformation dynamics 48

Chapter 4 The Specific Offer of Public Theatre 55

Making sense of classical drama 57

Stimulating new playwriting 59

Post-dramatic theatre 62

Opera and music theatre: Confronting elitism 63

Varieties of dance 68

Theatre for children and young people 74

Other theatre forms 78

Part II Asserting Own Distinction 81

Chapter 5 Programming Strategies 83

A disorienting abundance 86

Prompting name recognition 87

Programming in larger templates 89

Chapter 6 A Sense of Place 97

Failed reforms, some accomplishments 99

A matter of context 101

Space markers 104

Big or small? 107

Newly built or recycled? 109

Away from the theatre 113

Chapter 7 Finding the Audience, Making the Audience 119

Audiences: Limited, elusive and unstable 121

Commitment to education 123

Outreach strategies 126

Communication: Creating own media outlets 131

Chapter 8 Theatre in a Globalised World 135

The changing role of festivals 137

International cooperation in the performing arts 140

An emerging European cultural space 143

Trans-European vistas 147

An antidote to complacency 151

Chapter 9 Leadership, Governance and Cultural Policy 155

Leadership: Fantasies of a cultural Superman 159

Governance matters: Boards safeguarding autonomy 162

Minima moralia for a public theatre system 165

Funding: Decision-makers and their criteria 167

Public theatre and public culture 170.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101235

ISBN:

9781841505473