Has the theatre industry been effected by the financial crisis?

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HAS THE THEATRE INDUSTRY BEEN EFFECTED BY THE FINANCIAL CRISIS?I

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Background of the study1

Economic Crises and Theater Industry2

Theater industry of Performing Arts3

Research Questions3

Aims and objective of the study4

Problem Statement of the Study4

Scope of the Study5

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW6

Effects of Theater Industry6

Expenditure by Citizen on Theatre industry6

Charitable Programs8

Entertainment industry and economic importance9

CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY18

Research Approach18

Quantitative Research Method18

Qualitative Research19

Mixed Research Method20

Data Collection20

Primary Data Collection21

Secondary Data Collection21

Sample Technique21

Sample Size22

Ethical Considerations22

CHAPTER 4: ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION23

REFERENCES33

Has the theatre industry been effected by the financial crisis?

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background of the study

In the late sixties and throughout the seventh century the Spanish society outlined in the emergence of a group of playwrights and "companies" who rebel against the commercial theater triumphs in the scene. Write and represent a different theater found serious difficulties. On the one hand, censorship, that behaves erratically. For example, sometimes prevents represent the whole work or part of it, because it undermined the regime in other, gives permission for representation only for a few days and to a specific audience, never in theaters, sometimes , suspended shortly before the premiere representation or permissions granted indiscriminately, for works that take two months in Barcelona rooms are banned in Madrid. Arise, thus, a number of playwrights who, despite winning numerous awards, it hardly ever see her texts on stage (Koppies 2012).

On the other hand, employers are still not wanting to risk up to tables' works, aimed at a minority, is not economically viable. The only way out for young entrepreneurs was to create their own companies and operate as independent theater. In the late seventies and in the eighties the situation of theater in Spain improves dramatically. The rooms are arranged to represent works that were previously banned, which begins to know the work of playwrights born silenced and a new concept of theater that is in question until the very concept of theatricality. The convening of conferences, seminars and courses devoted to drama and the theatrical release of new magazines like First Act or Pijirijaina, favor the spread of a little-known art (Rebellato 2009).

Theater Industry of Europe

The dramatic conditions in Europe took place after two world wars leading intellectuals to rebel against the status quo. Poverty, hunger, destruction and death had taken a toll on the minds of young entrepreneurs, who cannot be unmoved. His weapon is literature and, through it, showing his nonconformity (Taylor 2012). The pre-disaster realism war has no place in the second half of the twentieth century. Arise, then, new proposals lash traditional. Vanguards had opened the way to experimentation, which will materialize in the theater of Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud and Grotowski. Existentialism, which so deeply rooted in Europe after World War derive, in a way, to the theater of the absurd, whose leading representatives are Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett.

Economic Crises and Theater Industry

Recently, it has been observed that every individual knows that importance of economic crises due to the fact that it has huge impact on ...