Studying European Theatre Audiences

This book reports on one of the largest co-ordinated efforts to survey the theatrical audience experience: the City Study of the Project on European Theatre Systems, which conducted over 7000 surveys and dozens of interviews and focus groups with audience members from four mid-sized cities across Europe.

Joshua Edelman is reader in drama and contemporary performance at Manchester Metropolitan University. Attila Szabó is a theatre researcher and assistant professor based in Budapest, Hungary. Hedi-Liis Toome is a lecturer of theatre studies at the University of Tartu. Marline Lisette Wilders is assistant professor Arts in Society at the University of Groningen. Antine Zijlstra works as Program maker Research and Innovation and researcher at the Academy of Education at the NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands).

Acknowledgement - Introduction - Chapter 1: The project and its goals - Interlude 1: Portraits of four cities - Chapter 2: The theatrical event: An art sociological framework - Chapter 3: Positioning the STEP City research in the context of audience and reception research - Chapter 4: The supply of theatre - Interlude 2: What on earth is Kleinkunst - Chapter 5: The City Survey: Quantitative audience and reception research methods - Chapter 6: The City survey: Data management and comparative data analysis - Chapter 7: The centre and the periphery: A case study from Debrecen - Chapter 8: Qualitative research on theatre audiences: The second phase of the STEP City Study - Interlude 3: Insights from theatre talks in Tyneside - Conclusion - Appendices - Bibliography Interlude 1 Interlude 2 Interlude 3 Index