MEDIATHEK

The current double issue of Amfiteater focuses on an international empirical research project called City Study conducted by a group called STEP from 2010 to 2014. The Study compares European theatre systems and covers the fields of theatre audiences, reception, cultural policy and theatre sociology. In 2009, the Project on European Theatre Systems (know by its reverse acronym STEP), Published its first book Global Changes - Local Stages, in which it investigated how theatre functions in smaller European countries. The result is this special edition of the third volume of Amfiteater, which presents this research in six interrelated articles and also offers descriptions of the cities that were part of the study: Aarhus (Denmark), Bern (Switzerland), Debrecen (Hungary), Groningen (the Netherlands), Maribor (Slovenia), Tartu (Estonia), Tyneside (United Kingdom). These cities are not the theatre capitals of the selected countries and consequently they often remain overlooked in theatre studies. [JUM]