National Theatres in a Changing Europe (Studies in International Performance)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Series Editors’ Preface......Page 10
Editor’s Preface......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 13
Introduction......Page 18
PART A: BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW......Page 24
1 The Development of National Theatres in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries......Page 26
2 National Theatres: Then and Now......Page 38
3 The National Stage and the Naturalized House: (Trans)National Legitimation in Modern Europe......Page 51
4 Towards a History of National Theatres in Europe......Page 66
PART B: FORMATION, FUNCTION, LANGUAGE ISSUES AND IDEOLOGICAL CONTROL......Page 78
I: Origins......Page 79
5 A Window to the West: Russian Imperial Theatres......Page 80
6 The Abbey Opens: A First Night Revisited......Page 90
II: Language Issues......Page 101
7 The Development of Norway’s National Theatres......Page 102
8 Justification as National Throughout Changing Times: The National Theatre of Finland......Page 116
9 Creating and Dismantling the National Theatre in Divided Belgium......Page 128
III: Governmental and Ideological Control......Page 136
10 National on Compulsion: The Moscow Art Theatre......Page 137
11 Italy: The Fancy of a National Theatre?......Page 155
PART C: NEW FUNCTIONS AND STRUCTURES IN A CHANGING EUROPE......Page 168
I: Western Europe......Page 169
12 Proliferation and Differentiation of National Theatres in France......Page 170
13 A National Theatre Decentralized: Sweden’s Three-and-a-half National Theatres......Page 181
14 Aspects of National Theatres in Germany after 1945......Page 190
15 The National Theatre and Civic Responsibility in the British Isles......Page 197
II: Central and Eastern Europe......Page 204
16 Bulgarian National Theatre ‘Ivan Vazov’: Traditionally Non-traditional......Page 205
17 The Disappearing Balkans: National Theatres and Geopolitics......Page 213
18 Inadequate Subsidy and a Market Economy in the Baltic Countries......Page 221
PART D: CHALLENGES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY......Page 232
19 National Theatres Undermined by the Withering of the Nation-State......Page 234
20 The Role of National Theatres in an Age of Globalization......Page 245
Select Bibliography of English Language Sources......Page 256
B......Page 262
C......Page 263
D......Page 264
F......Page 265
G......Page 266
I......Page 267
L......Page 268
M......Page 269
N......Page 270
P......Page 272
R......Page 273
S......Page 274
T......Page 275
Z......Page 276