Festivalising! : theatrical events, politics and culture / edited by Temple Hauptfleish ... [et al.]

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Series: Themes in theatre ; 3Publication details: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007Description: 328 pISBN:

9789042022218

Summary: Throughout the world festivals are growing – in numbers, in size, in significance – and serve as spaces where aesthetic encounters, religious and political celebrations, economic investments and public entertainment can take place. In this sense, festivals are theatrical events. This volume contains discussions of 14 diverse festival events from five continents across the globe, written by members of the IFTR/FIRT Working Group on the Theatrical Event, the same group that has produced the ground-breaking study Theatrical Events – Borders Dynamics Frames in 2004 (also published by Rodopi). The events discussed here range from traditional carnivals and festivals to more controversial theatre, dance and opera festivals, children’s festivals and community events, as well as saints’ and workers’ festivities. All of these constitute part of the local playing cultures and take on significant political roles, nationally and regionally. The authors explore and extend the theoretical frames of reference for any contemporary discussion of theatrical events and festivals, in order to provide a new and fresh perspective on past and present festival culture across the globe. (Font: Editor)

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Preface - festival cultures / Jacqueline Martin -- Introduction - the festivalising process / Vicki Ann Cremona -- Part one. Theatrical event festivalised: Festivals as theatrical events: building theories / Willmar Sauter ; Festivals, theatrical events and communicative interactions / Henri Shoenmakers ; Festivals as eventifying systems / Temple Hauptfleisch -- Part Two. Eventifying theatre festivals : The theatricality of the Verona Opera Festival / Linda Streit ; The Out-of-the-Box Festival of Early Chidhood: fashioning the boutique festival for children / Georgia Seffrin ; In search of the rainbow: The Little Karoo National Arts Festival and the search for cultural identity in South Africa / Temple Hauptfleish ; Playing politics at the Adelaide Festival / Jacqueline Martin & Willmar Sauter ; Hybrid festivals. The Mickery Theatre: in search of a dramaturgy of fragmentation / Henri Schoenmakers -- Part three. Theatre festivals as national events: Ideology in movement and a movement in ideology : the Deustsche Tanzfestpiele 1934 / David J. Buch & Hana Worthen ; Iranian theatre festivalised / Farah Yeganeh ; The Israeli National Community Theatre Festival, the real and the imagined / Shulamith Lev-Aladgem ; The values of a festival - the Swedish Theatre Biennale / Willmar Sauter -- Part Four. Festival culture as theatrical events : Burning Man: festival culture in the United States- festival culture in a global perspective / Wendy Clupper ; Community building within a festival frame- working-class celebrations in Germany 1918-33 / Matthias Warstat ; Festivals in religious or spiritual contexts: examples from Japan, China, India and Bangladesh / Christina Nygren : The Feast of Saint Nicholas in the Low Countries / Peter Eversmann ; Searching for Tennessee: performative identity and the theatrical event. Tennessee Williams / New Orleáns Literary Festival / Carolyn Bain -- Abstracts -- Biographies

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