Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
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)
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)
Chapter 9 Crisis? Czech Theatre after 1989
Radka Kunderová
Chapter 10 Artistic Freedom — State Control — Democracy: Oliver Frljićʼs 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 Šorli and Zala Dobovšek (University of Ljubljana)
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
Christopher Balme is professor of theatre and performance studies at LMU Munich, Germany.
Tony Fisher is a reader in theatre and philosophy and Associate Director of Research at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK.
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