In:
The Drama Review, JSTOR, Vol. 13, No. 1 ( 1968), p. 46-56
Abstract:
Holstebro is a Danish town which nourishes ambitions rather like those of an Italian Renaissance city-state, where the rise of bourgeois economics was accompanied by dreams of artistic splendor. The Scandinavian Welfare State seems uneasy; there is a kind of neurotic squeak in the well-oiled machinery of daily life. An ultramodern industrial center, Holstebro—perhaps as unconscious compensation for its wealth—now hopes to become a center for “culture.” The city fathers of this small provincial town have built one of the two largest stages in Denmark, “bought” a young composer of electronic music and commissioned him to create a laboratory of musical research; they subsidize a good amateur orchestra and plan to install a professional one; finally, they have given Eugenio Barba the means of creating a theatre lab on the model of Jerzy Grotowski's at Wrøclaw—Odin Teatret (Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium for Skuespillerkunst).
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0012-5962
,
2326-2060
Language:
English
Publisher:
JSTOR
Publication Date:
1968
detail.hit.zdb_id:
3093454-0
SSG:
9,3
SSG:
7,25
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