2021/06/26 by Magdalena Grenda, Grenda, Magdalena
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Diverse Academic Research Studies #Eastern European Communism and Reforms #Theatre and Performance Studies
paper · doi:10.34762/txmb-9d67
openalex publication_date 2021/06/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
The article discusses and analyzes the model of operation and promotion of contemporary independent theatre companies (including their financing and organizational status), whose specifics places the alternative theatre in the background in relation to the institutional/dominant theatre. However, the main objective of the article is not to compare the repertory theatre with the off theatre, but to identify the obstacles and dangers to the alternative theatre today and the prospects for its development. The analysis is conducted in the spirit of cultural studies and aims to initiate a discussion of the financing and promotion of off theatres, an issue that is rarely the subject of detailed examinations or scientific studies. The result may be a marginalization and even disregard of the phenomenon in question, which plays an important role in Polish theatrical life. Keywords: alternative theatre, relationship between institutional and off theatre, marginalization of independent theatre, financing and promotion of alternative theatre