Summary
Dragan Klaić: Starting anew
Changing the theater system
As a theater professional and university professor, Dragan Klaić observed the rise of commercial theater and its growing professionalism with increasing concern about the consequences for the non-commercial scene. Bearing in mind the rivalry, proximity, and even networking of these two worlds - one that pursues profit and the other that is maintained by state subsidies - the author advocates in this book for their clear demarcation. The question it raises is how these theater houses, troupes, venues, festivals, studios, as well as the infrastructure that supports and relies on them, can be maintained in competition with commercial entertainment, in a situation of weakened support from state authorities. Globalization, migration, European integration and the digital revolution are changing the way of life of people in cities and in the countryside and putting pressure on the state theater to adapt and modify its role or risk being marginalized and becoming irrelevant.
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