Festivalising!
Subtitle: theatrical events, politics and culture
By: edited by Temple Hauptfleisch ... [et al.]
Contributors: Hauptfleisch, Temple.; International Federation for Theatre Research. Theatre and Intermediality Working Group.
Series: Themes in theatre : collective approaches to theatre and performance -- 3; Themes in theatre -- 3.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9789042022218
Subjects: Drama festivals -- Social aspects.; Festivals -- Social aspects.; Drama festivals -- Political aspects.; Festivals -- Political aspects.; Theater and society.
Notes: "IFTR/FIRT Theatrical Event Working Group."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface : Festival cultures / Jacqueline Martin; title: Introduction : The festivalising process / Vicki Ann Cremona; title: Festivals as theatrical events : building theories / Willmar Sauter; title: Festivals, theatrical events and communicative interactions / Henri Schoenmakers; title: Festivals as eventifying systems / Temple Hauptfleisch; title: The theatricality of the Verona Opera Festival / Linda Streit; title: The out-of-the-box festival of early childhood : fashioning the boutique festival for children / Georgia Seffrin; title: In search of the rainbow : the Little Karoo National Arts Festival and the search for cultural identity in South Africa / Temple Hauptfleisch; title: Playing politics at the Adelaide Festival / Jacqueline Martin & Willmar Sauter; title: Hybrid festivals : the Mickery Theatre : in search of a dramaturgy of fragmentation / Henri Schoenmakers; title: Ideology in movement and a movement in ideology : the Deutsche Tanzfestspiele 1934 / David J. Buch & Hana Worthen; title: Iranian theatre festivalised / Farah Yeganeh; title: The Israeli National Community Theatre Festival, the real and the imagined / Shulamith Lev-Aladgem; title: The values of a festival : the Swedish Theatre Biennale / Willmar Sauter; title: Burning Man : festival culture in the United States : festival culture in a global perspective / Wendy Clupper; title: Community building within a festival frame : working-class celebrations in Germany 1918-33 / Matthias Warstat; title: Festivals in religious or spiritual contexts : examples from Japan, China, India and Bangladesh / Christina Nygren; title: The Feast of Saint Nicholas in the low countries / Peter Eversmann; title: Searching for Tennessee : performative identity and the theatrical event. Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival / Carolyn Bain.