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