Towards a Civic Theatre

Dan Hutton

• Editorial: Salamander Street Ltd.
• Año: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781913630935
• Categoría: Medios de comunicación y artes escénicas
• Categoría: Teatro

It's easy to blame a worldwide pandemic on the woes facing British theatre in 2020. But the seeds of destruction were sown some time before the longest shutdown of stages since the mid-seventeenth century. Ten years of austerity, decades of neoliberal ideology and the rise of private space all worked together to create a theatre industry out of touch with its raison d'être.Towards A Civic Theatre argues that a theatre without a civic purpose is useless and doomed to fail. Full of ideas and provocations from some of British theatre's unsung heroes, and drawing on examples from inside and outside of the performing arts, it makes the case for a new kind of theatre fit for purpose in an inevitably tumultuous twenty-first century. It is a toolkit, a manifesto, and a call to arms for artistic leaders of tomorrow.