Acco Festival: Between Celebration and Confrontation by Jerome Napthaly Shem-Tov

Acco Festival: Between Celebration and Confrontation by Jerome Napthaly Shem-Tov

This research follows the history ofthe Acco Festival for Other Israeli Theatre from 1980-2012, chronicling it as a site of celebration as well as confrontation. The Acco Festival is presented as a borderland that brings together established mainstream directors and actors, alternative artists from the fringes, and Acco’s Jewish and Arab residents. The book explores the festival’s artistic direction; repertoire; organization, budget, and infrastructure; reception; and the Acco host community.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Artistic Direction and the Political: Exception Takes the Stage?
Chapter Two: Performance Repertoire: Representations of Social Conflicts
Chapter Three: Organization, Budget, and Infrastructure: Between Center and Periphery
Chapter Four: Festival Reception: Judgment, Criticism, and Audience
Chapter Five: Host Community: Policy and Resistance
References

The book’s page on the publisher’s site

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