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Szitás Péter
The World of Theatre in a Time of Change
Abstract The past two years have posed unprecedented challenges for the cultural sector as a whole, including theatres. The outbreak of the pandemic, and the restrictions imposed to contain it, turned the institutional routine on its head, placing the world of the performing arts in a dimension alien to it. Our study focuses on the internal processes that characterised theatres before, during and after the pandemic. We will illustrate how the venues have responded to the enforced closures, what they have done to preserve their communities and audiences, and whether they have acquired valuable knowledge at a level that may be applied in returning them to their former domain. Key words: theatre, cultural life, closures, funding, lessons learned 10.56044/UA.2022.1.3.eng FULL TEXT
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Antal Zsolt
Balázs Géza
Fazekas István
Galántai Csaba
Hauber Károly
Hegyi Dániel
Lukácsy György
Pataki András
Schreiber András
Sepsi Enikő
Szabó Attila
Szitás Péter
Timár András
Véghelyi Balázs
Veress Ferenc

For the preservation of the Hungarian race, its social welfare and successful future, the only path is through outstanding education and research…

The leadership of the University of Theatre and Film Arts, in harmony with the goals set down in its founding document in the course of the university system’s restructuring, is committed to raising interest in the institution’s students, instructors and researchers by achieving and promoting results, both artistic and scholarly, that showcase the values of universal and natural culture. With the establishment of the peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal Urania, released each semester and made readily available, the time has come for our colleagues to make their artistic and scholastic statements public on their own published platform – as it is done at similar universities. The goal of the journal is to fill a central role in bringing to light research and publications that integrate theatre, film and media studies within the country and internationally.

As we wish to provide a forum for the authors, our paramount goal is to strengthen, in our country’s scholarly community, the existence of a dialogue in scholarly and artistic areas that defines our national culture. Moreover, by these means, we wish to offer our readers alternatives to prejudices and ingrained ideas related to these themes.