Cultural Value in a Time of Crisis: Public Debates and Governmental Discourses in the G7 Nations.
This article explores responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to creative workforces, organisations and their audiences, and the structures underpinning the performing arts in each of the G7 countries our research compared. It investigates how these developments were shaped by and contributed...
| Published in: | Contemporary Theatre Review Vol. 35; no. 2/3; pp. 107 - 129 |
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May-Aug2025
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