Staatsschauspiel Dresden (Germany) hosted the ETC International Theatre Conference during the Our Stage – 4th European Bürgerbühne Festival. The conference programme brought together different European approaches to participatory theatre and dealt with questions of audience involvement and socially engaged theatre. 

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Our Stage

Our Stage introduces the idea of Bürgerbühne (literally “citizens’ stage”) – which is run the same way as a professional in-house production company but involves nonprofessional actors – as a new form of creative community outreach via artistic collaboration and as a new artistic business model.

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