Abstract
This book analyzes the Theatre Olympics chronologically from the first event in 1995 to the most recent one in 2014. By analyzing the first six Theatre Olympics in chronological order, this book addresses the following ideas: how each festival expressed the spirit of Olympism in each country’s distinct cultural language, how each festival’s theme supported the idea of interculturalism, and how each festival’s attendees attempted to accomplish cultural exchange. This book also examines how the Theatre Olympics has served to enrich each host country’s culture, community, and foreign relations.
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For Japanese, Korean, and Chinese names, I follow the traditional order of family name followed by given name.
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The program book of the fourth Theatre Olympics has no record of the artistic director. Instead, Terzopoulos was described as the chairman of the International Committee and Dikmen Gürün is recorded as the festival director. However, the following two program books of the fifth and sixth Theatre Olympics describe Terzopoulos as the artistic director of the fourth Theatre Olympics.
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Italics in the original.
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Kim, J.K. (2016). Introduction. In: International Theatre Olympics. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2573-0_1
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