Theatre Institutions in Crisis European Perspectives

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Publics

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)

2. Funding and labour

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)

3. Post-Socialism

Chapter 9 Crisis? Czech Theatre after 1989

Radka Kunderová

Chapter 10 Artistic Freedom - State Control - Democracy: Oliver Frljic s 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 Sorli and Zala Dobovsek (University of Ljubljana)

4. 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