TY - BOOK ID - 30771796 TI - Resetting the stage : public theatre between the market and democracy PY - 2012 SN - 1783200480 1841505471 1461928427 PB - Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect Ltd, DB - UniCat KW - Theater and society. KW - Government aid to the arts KW - Arts KW - Government patronage of the arts KW - Actors KW - Society and theater KW - Theater KW - Government aid KW - Social status KW - Social aspects KW - Finance KW - European theatre KW - public theatre KW - theatre market KW - commercial theatre UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30771796 AB - Commercial theatre is thriving across Europe, while public theatre has suffered under changing patterns of cultural consumption - as well as sharp reductions in government subsidies for the arts. At a time when the rationale behind these subsidies is being widely reexamined, it has never been more important for public theatre to demonstrate its continued merit. In Resetting the Stage, Dragan Klaic argues convincingly that, in an increasingly crowded market of cultural goods, public theatre is best served not by imitating its much larger commercial counterpart, but by asserting its artistic dis ER -