In many European countries mass theater was a widespread
expression of "community art" that became increasingly popular
shortly before World War I. From Max Reinhardt's lavish open-air
spectacles to socialist workers' Laienspiel (lay theater), theater
visionaries focused on ever larger groups for entertainment as well
as political agitation.
Despite wide research on the Soviet and German cases, examples
from the Low Countries have hardly been examined. However, mass
plays in Flanders and the Netherlands had a distinctive character,
displaying an ideological heterogeneity not seen elsewhere. Mass
Theatre in Inter-War Europe places this peculiar phenomenon of the
Low Countries in its European context and sheds light on the
broader framework of mass movements in the interwar period.
Contributors: Staf Vos (Het Firmament), Karel Vanhaesebrouck
(Universite Libre de Bruxelles/Rits), Evelien Jonckheere (Ghent
University), Ad van der Logt (Leiden University), Frank Peeters
(University of Antwerp)"
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