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The Document as Event: Assessing the Value of Digital Collections for Theatrical Heritage

documentasevent_1‘The Document as Event: Assessing the Value of Digital Collections of Theatrical Heritage.’

Theatrical Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities. Eds. Forment, Bruno; Stalpaert, Christel. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2015. 195–205.

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Mass Theatre in Interwar Europe

Mass Theatre in Interwar Europe (book cover)In many European countries mass theatre was a widespread expression of ‘community art’, which became increasingly popular shortly before the First World War. From Max Reinhardt’s lavish open-air spectacles to socialist workers’ Laienspiel (lay theatre), theatre visionaries focused on ever larger groups for entertainment as well as political agitation.

Despite wide research on the Soviet and German cases, examples from the Low Countries have hardly been examined. However, mass plays in Flanders and the Netherlands had a distinctive character, displaying an ideological heterogeneity not seen elsewhere. Mass Theatre in Interwar Europe studies this peculiar phenomenon of the Low Countries in its European context and sheds light on the broader framework of mass movements in the interwar period.

Editors: Thomas Crombez (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp) and Luk Van den Dries (University of Antwerp)

Contributors: Staf Vos (Het Firmament), Karel Vanhaesebrouck (Université Libre de Bruxelles/Rits), Evelien Jonckheere (Ghent University), Ad van der Logt (Leiden University), Frank Peeters (University of Antwerp)

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