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ISBN 9781841505473 (print)

Print version: Klaic, Dragan. Resetting the Stage : public theatre between the market and democracy. Bristol : Intellect Ltd,c2012 ISBN 9781841505473

Includes bibliographical references

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Contents // Preface ix // Acknowledgements xv // 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 // Resetting the Stage // 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 // vi // Contents // ln Place of an Epilogue: The Prospects for Public Theatre in Europe 173 // Sources 177 // About the Author 187 // Afterword 189 // vii

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