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Global Changes - Local Stages Themes in Theatre Collective Approaches to Theatre and Performance 5 Series Editor: Peter G.F. Eversmann Editorial Board: Temple Hauptfleisch Hans van Maanen Global Changes - Local Stages How Theatre Functions in Smaller European Countries Edited by Hans van Maanen, Andreas Kotte and Anneli Saro IFTR/FIRT International Research Group STEP (Project on European Theatre Systems) Amsterdam - New York, NY 2009 Official Publication of the International Federation for Theatre Research/ Publication officielle de la Fédération Internationale pour la Recherche Théâtrale Cover photo: Ernesto Graf, Karl’s kühne Gassenschau Cover design: Pier Post The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents - Requirements for permanence”. ISBN: 978-90-420-2612-4 E-Book ISBN: 978-90-420-2613-1 ©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2009 Printed in the Netherlands Contents Editors’ Preface 9 About the Contributors 13 PART 1: THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL CHANGES ON THEATRE FIELDS Introduction Anneli Saro 19 1 National Theatres and the Construction of Identity in Smaller European Countries S.E.Wilmer 23 2 The Interaction of Theatre and Society: The Example of Estonia Anneli Saro 41 3 Between Inertia and Cultural Terrorism: Slovenian Theatre in Times of Crisis and Change Barbara Sušec Michieli 63 4 Changes in the Hungarian Theatre System Zsófia Lelkes 90 5 National Identity Embedded in an International Art Form: The Role of Opera in Estonian Culture Kristel Pappel 125 6 Internationalization and the Irish State’s Relationship with Theatre and Opera Áine Sheil and Joshua Edelman 146 6 Contents PART 2: VALUES IN THEATRE POLITICS Introduction Hans van Maanen 179 7 Artistic Diversity as a Political Objective Louise Ejgod Hansen 183 8 Becoming a Performing Arts Institution in Estonia Ott Karulin 208 9 Arts Planning in the Irish Theatre: A Cautionary Tale Joshua Edelman 229 10 Functioning of the Performing Arts in Urban Society: Political Views on Artistic Experience Quirijn Lennert van den Hoogen 265 11 Artist or Manager: Who Should Lead the Swiss City Theatres? Mathias Bremgartner 300 PART 3: LOCALIZATION OF THEATRICAL VALUES Introduction Andreas Kotte 329 12 Theatre and the Discourse on Subsidization Andreas Kotte 333 13 From Review to Preview: A Process of Rationalization in Mediating Theatre? Pia Strickler 361 Contents 7 14 Changing Frames of Social Spaces on the Hungarian Stage Attila Szabó 389 15 The Internationalization of Slovenian National Theatre Between 1989 and 1996: The Seven Years of Pandur Theatre Maja Šorli 428 16 How Theatre Buildings Condition the Realization of Values for Local Audiences Marlieke Wilders 460 17 How Theatrical Events Determine Theatre’s Functioning in Society Hans van Maanen 490 EPILOGUE 18 STEP on Stage: Studying Theatre Systems in Glocal Contexts Quirijn Lennert van den Hoogen and Marlieke Wilders 527 Editors’ Preface In May 2005, a group of theatre scholars coming from six small coun- tries (Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands and Swit- zerland) met at a small conference in the Dutch city of Groningen (small on the European, though not on the Dutch scale), to formulate a big research question: How do various theatre systems and their con- texts support the functioning of theatre in their respective societies? A big question, indeed, in terms of importance since theatre as such, as well as its role in cultures, has changed dramatically in the fourth quarter of the twentieth century. Also, in terms of complexity, it is a big question. On the one hand it refers to such complex notions as ‘systems’, ‘context’ and ‘functioning’, not to mention ‘theatre’ itself. On the other hand, as quickly became clear at the start, this big ques- tion appeared to dissolve into very many sub-questions. This observa- tion is strengthened by the fact that while both senior and PhD re- searchers managed to find common cause in the main topic of interest, contributions were based on the questions they were occupied with in their own research. Therefore, the following meeting (Bern 2006) was used especially to discover in which directions the research group would be working throughout the first years of collaboration. And more than that happened at Bern. The people who ini- tially flew there together, more or less by the coincidence of mutual acquaintance, accompanied now by colleagues from Slovenia, landed in Bern as a real research group, identified by a name: STEP, Project on European Theatre Systems, and committed to quite a long period of cooperation. At the Bern meeting the members formulated their publi- cation plans for the next five years and started off some serious de- bates on methodology (from the choice of theoretical approaches to data collection techniques). These debates were continued at an extra meeting held during the IFTR congress in Helsinki (2006). When STEP met again, in Debrecén in the spring of 2007, eight new mem- bers had joined the original dozen researchers. By then the group was ready to plan a first collective book publication that would explore and clarify the major lines of research that had been investigated up until then. Meetings in Groningen and Tartu, both held in 2008, were used to work on this present book and at the end of this period, during the beautiful early days of summer in Estonia, plans for the next, more
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