ABSTRACT This article places the aim of the Incubate Propagate research network – to address the obstacles for artists outwith the graduate community to access theatre-making careers – in dialogue with some key and recurring concerns in contemporary debates around class identification in the twenty-first century. It argues that articulation of class discrimination and disadvantage in the field of theatre-making is critical, not despite the complexity of reaching contemporary definitions of class, but because that very complexity reveals precisely the extent of the problem and the specific, and often unconscious, ways in which discrimination is operating. The article extends the debate from an emphasis on economic capital to examine the critical importance of social and cultural capital to class identity, discrimination and privilege in the arts. It focuses, in particular, on ways in which the historical infantilization of the poor continues to influence artistic and policy decisions in the twenty-first century, and highlights the importance and challenges of emerging cultural capital in the sub-field of avant-garde and experimental theatre practice – the context in which emerging theatre-makers mostly operate.

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为什么我们仍然需要谈论课堂

摘要 本文将孵化传播研究网络的目标——解决研究生社区以外的艺术家进入戏剧制作职业的障碍——与当代围绕阶级认同的辩论中的一些关键和反复出现的问题进行对话。 . 它认为，在戏剧制作领域阐明阶级歧视和劣势是至关重要的，尽管达到当代阶级定义的复杂性，但因为这种复杂性恰恰揭示了问题的严重程度和具体的，而且往往是无意识的，歧视的运作方式。这篇文章将辩论从强调经济资本扩展到审查社会和文化资本对艺术中的阶级认同、歧视和特权的极端重要性。