Are Arts Festivals Still about Art?

The article presents an edited version of the speech "Are Arts Festivals Still about Art?," by Brent Meersman, delivered at the Thirteenth International Symposium of Theatre Critics and Scholars in May 2009. Meersman spoke on the rich-poor disparity in South Africa being underlined by events such as...

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Published in:Theater Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 78 - 87
Main Author: MEERSMAN, BRENT
Format: Speech
Published: Duke University Press Winter2011
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