The Gap in the Fence: Austerity Cuts, Retrenchment and European Theatre’s Wake-up Call
As the world well knows, austerity cuts in Europe mean that small-to-medium theatre companies are facing an uncertain future, to the extent that the golden age of funding is coming to an end. But has the theatre this funding has produced been golden in itself? And are Europeans turning a drama into...
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| description | As the world well knows, austerity cuts in Europe mean that small-to-medium theatre companies are facing an uncertain future, to the extent that the golden age of funding is coming to an end. But has the theatre this funding has produced been golden in itself? And are Europeans turning a drama into a crisis when they use the term “austerity”? This paper puts forward the provocative argument that subsidy is as likely to suppress innovative theatre as it is to support it and that, perhaps, theatre functions best as an outlaw genre, free from public control masquerading as support. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-445962017-09-13T14:14:26Z The Gap in the Fence: Austerity Cuts, Retrenchment and European Theatre’s Wake-up Call Freeman, John austerity theatre public funding crisis As the world well knows, austerity cuts in Europe mean that small-to-medium theatre companies are facing an uncertain future, to the extent that the golden age of funding is coming to an end. But has the theatre this funding has produced been golden in itself? And are Europeans turning a drama into a crisis when they use the term “austerity”? This paper puts forward the provocative argument that subsidy is as likely to suppress innovative theatre as it is to support it and that, perhaps, theatre functions best as an outlaw genre, free from public control masquerading as support. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44596 10.6092/issn.2039-2281/3697 University of Bologna fulltext |
| spellingShingle | austerity theatre public funding crisis Freeman, John The Gap in the Fence: Austerity Cuts, Retrenchment and European Theatre’s Wake-up Call |
| title | The Gap in the Fence: Austerity Cuts, Retrenchment and European Theatre’s Wake-up Call |
| title_full | The Gap in the Fence: Austerity Cuts, Retrenchment and European Theatre’s Wake-up Call |
| title_fullStr | The Gap in the Fence: Austerity Cuts, Retrenchment and European Theatre’s Wake-up Call |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Gap in the Fence: Austerity Cuts, Retrenchment and European Theatre’s Wake-up Call |
| title_short | The Gap in the Fence: Austerity Cuts, Retrenchment and European Theatre’s Wake-up Call |
| title_sort | gap in the fence: austerity cuts, retrenchment and european theatre’s wake-up call |
| topic | austerity theatre public funding crisis |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44596 |