Playing the Edinburgh lottery: Six decades of New Zealand theatre at the Edinburgh festival fringe

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Title Playing the Edinburgh lottery: Six decades of New Zealand theatre at the Edinburgh festival fringe
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Abstract/Description Aotearoa New Zealand theatre has had a long association with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, dating back to Bruce Mason's tour of 'The End of the Golden Weather' to the 1963 Fringe. A cluster of New Zealand plays that toured around the millennium gained high-profile and award-winning seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe, which, alongside considerable institutional support by Creative New Zealand, led to an explosion of productions travelling to the Fringe, culminating in the 2014 and 2017 'NZ at Edinburgh' seasons. An analysis of tours to the Fringe over six decades reveals cultural and institutional contestations over how the nation and its theatre were represented to and received by Fringe audiences, and also raises questions around the sustainability of continuing to target the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a strategy to enter the global theatre marketplace.
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Source Australasian Drama Studies, ADSA, VIC
Issue 74
Page 161-188
Date Issued April 2019
Language English
ISSN 0810-4123
Citation James Wenley, Playing the Edinburgh lottery: Six decades of New Zealand theatre at the Edinburgh festival fringe, Australasian Drama Studies, 74, April 2019, 161-188
Data Set AusStage
Resource Identifier 68803