The Israeli National Community Theatre Festival: The real and the imagined

Theatre Research International

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 284-295

  Lev Aladgem, Shulamith ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 43249167386     PISSN: 03078833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0307883305001537     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. Yossi Alfi, the founder of the Festival, from an interview with the author of this article, August 2002
2. I suggest here the term 'co-community' in parallel with 'co-culture' as presented in the field of communication studies by Mark Orbe, in order to replace the negatively loaded more familiar expressions such as 'sub-culture', 'minority group', 'non'dominant group' etc. See Mark Orbe, Constructing Co-Cultural Theory (London: Sage, 1988)
3. See, for example, Shulamith Lev-Aladgem, 'Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Israeli Community Theatre' in Theatre Research International, 28, 2 (2003), pp. 181-92
4. During the 1980s he organized workshops for community theatre directors in various academic venues through 'Kahal' (in English, 'audience'), his own profit association
5. Alfi, interview
6. She is the official secretary of 'Kahal', faithfully assisting Alfi for many years
7. I myself was a member in the organization board of the first Festival in 1998 and led discussions at the Festivals of 1999 and 2003. As I had chosen to focus this article on the 2002 Festival, I refrained from taking any active part
8. I refer to it hereafter as the Festival
9. Don Handelman, Models and Mirrors: Towards Anthropology of Public Events (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
10. Victor Turner, The Forest of Symbols (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1967)
11. See also Victor Turner and Edith Turner, 'Religious Celebrations' in Victor Turner, ed., Celebrations: Studies in Festivity and Ritual (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982), pp. 201-19
12. Anderson Benedict, Imagined communities (London: Verso, New Left Books, 1991)
13. On this subject see Freddie Rokem, 'Witnessing Woyzeck: Theatricality and the Empowerment of the Spectator' in Substance, 31, 2 and 3 (2002), pp. 167-83
14. Ralph Rinzler and Peter Seitel, 'Preface', in Turner, ed., Celebration
15. Edward Bruner, ed., Text, Play and Story: The Construction and Reconstruction of Self and Society (Washington, DC: American Ethnological Society, 1984)