The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide

Sarah Thomasson

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Palgrave Macmillan
22 August 2023

Theatre Studies; Dance & Performing arts; Cultural studies; Human geography

The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide examines how these cities’ world-famous arts events have shaped and been shaped by their long-term interaction with their urban environments. While the Edinburgh International Festival and Adelaide Festival are long-established, prestigious events that champion artistic excellence, they are also accompanied by the two largest open-access fringe festivals in the world. It is this simultaneous staging of multiple events within Edinburgh’s Summer Festivals and Adelaide’s Mad March that generates the visibility and festive atmosphere popularly associated with both places. Drawing on perspectives from theatre studies and cultural geography, this book interrogates how the Festival City, as a place myth, has developed in the very different local contexts of Edinburgh and Adelaide, and how it is challenged by groups competing for the right to use and define public space. Each chapter examines a recent performative event in which festivaldebates and controversies spilled out beyond the festival space to activate the public sphere by intersecting with broader concerns and audiences. This book forges an interdisciplinary, comparative framework for festival studies to interrogate how festivals are embedded in the social and political fabric of cities and to assess the cultural impact of the festivalisation phenomenon.

By: Sarah Thomasson
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2022 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9783031090967
ISBN 10: 3031090969
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 22 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide.- Chapter 2: The Place Myth of the Festival City.- Chapter 3: Culture Wars: The Festivalisation of Public Space.- Chapter 4: Entrepreneurialism on the Fringe.- Chapter 5: Performing Nation: Revisionist Histories on the World Stage.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Looking Beyond the Pandemic

Sarah Thomasson is Lecturer in Theatre at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her research interests include international arts festivals, space and place in performance, contemporary feminist performance, and digital research methods for theatre.

Reviews for The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide

“The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide offers a convincing interdisciplinary and transnational approach for Festival Studies. … Thomasson proposes an expedient methodological framework to analyse festivals' institutional structure as well as their role in local economies, place promotion, and the construction of national identities, which can be taken as inspiration for research projects on other international arts festivals and their fringe counterparts.” (Hanna Huber, rezens.tfm, rezenstfm.univie.ac.at, November 14, 2024)