TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knowles,Richard Paul
TI  - International theatre festivals and 21st-century interculturalism
T2  - Theatre and performance theory
SN  - 9781316517246
AV  - PN1590.F47 KNO 2022
U1  - 790.2 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 
KW  - Drama festivals
KW  - Cultural relations
KW  - Theater and society
KW  - DRAMA / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Ric Knowles' study is a politically urgent, erudite intervention into the ecology of theatre and performance festivals in an international context. Since the 1990s there has been an exponential increase in the number and type of festivals taking place around the world. Events that used merely to be events are now "festivalized": structured, marketed, and promoted in ways that stress urban centres as tourist destinations and "creative cities" as targets of corporate enterprise. Ric Knowles examines the structure, content, and impact of international festivals that draw upon and represent multiple cultures and the roles they play in one of the most urgent processes of our times: intercultural negotiation and exchange. Covering a vast geographical sweep and exploring festival models both new and ancient, the work sets compelling new standards of practice for postpandemic festivals"--
ER  -