Institutional Theatrics : Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin / Brandon Woolf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woolf, Brandon, author.

Series:

Performance works.

Performance Works

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, political and economic agendas in the reunified German capital have worked to dismantle the state-subsidized stage. Institutional Theatrics charts the ways artists have reimagined the theater in response to these crises"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Arts of Institutional Dis/avowal: Putting Performance into Policy Studies

"Is There a Cultural Policy?": Debating the Demise of the State-Stage Complex

Frank Castorf's Lehrstück: Refunctioning Brecht's Institutional Legacy at the VolksbuÌ⁸hne

Haunted Infrastructures of Public Memory: Performing the Many Facades of the Palast der Republik

Occupying the Immaterial Institution; or, Performing Policy Postdramatically: andcompany&Co.'s (Coming) Insurrection

Epilogue Dis/avowing Dis/avowal?: Dercon Debacle Redux.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8101-4356-9

OCLC:

1247157964