Browsing Department of Drama by Subject "subsidy"

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    • The Fringe: The Rise and Fall of Radical Alternative Theatre 

      Harvie, J; Rebellato, D (Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-21)
      The various names given to the new theatre movement that emerged in the 1960s to challenge both the West End and the new subsidised theatre sector include ‘fringe’, ‘alternative’, and ‘underground’; each offers different ...

    • Subsidised Theatre: Strength, Elitism, Metropolitanism, Racism 

      Harvie, J (Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-21)
      This chapter examines the newly expanded and transformed theatre ecology enabled by the post-war rise of central government subsidy to the arts. It explores subsidy’s ambitions, achievements, and benefits, but also its ...