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Understanding Public Theater

Summary/Abstract: Dragan Klaic's book Resetting the Stage: Public Theater between the Market and Democracy (Polish edition: Zbigniew Raszewski Theater Institute, Theater Confrontations/Culture Center in Lublin, Warsaw-Lublin 2014) allows us to understand the idea of public theater, identified by the author through his cultural competencies and duties. In Klaic's view, the European theater systems require far-reaching revisions of public financing standards, for which one of the key criteria ought to be the level of the artistic, cultural, and civic mission, conceived in its broadest terms. Agata Siwiak notes the enormous importance of this work on the Polish market, where the organizational status of the institution is a deciding factor in receiving grants, and readers mistakenly identify public theater with local-governmental and state repertoire theaters.

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