In 1981 Rose Fenton and Lucy Neal established the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT). While the Festival is generally recognized as having been highly influential in the field of British theatre over the past twenty-five years, it has received little academic attention. In this article Phoebe Patey-Ferguson examines the founding of the event, arguing that the specific socio-political circumstances of its early years gave shape to the innovative form of a city-based international theatre festival. The bureaucratic conflict between Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government and Ken Livingstone’s Greater London Council (GLC) is identified as a central factor in the creation of LIFT, with reference to Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of the bureaucratic field and Loïc Wacquant’s development of this model in relation to neoliberal market capitalism. The article is derived from Phoebe Patey-Ferguson’s recently completed PhD on LIFT in its social, cultural, and political context at the Department of Theatre and Performance, Goldsmiths, University of London.1

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LIFT 和 GLC 与撒切尔：1981 年伦敦的文化战场

1981 年，罗斯芬顿和露西尼尔创立了伦敦国际戏剧节 (LIFT)。尽管艺术节被普遍认为在过去 25 年中在英国戏剧领域具有很大的影响力，但它却很少受到学术关注。在这篇文章中，菲比·帕蒂-弗格森 (Phoebe Patey-Ferguson) 审视了该活动的成立，认为其早年的特定社会政治环境塑造了以城市为基础的国际戏剧节的创新形式。玛格丽特·撒切尔 (Margaret Thatcher) 的保守党政府和肯·利文斯通 (Ken Livingstone) 的大伦敦委员会 (GLC) 之间的官僚冲突被认为是 LIFT 创建的核心因素，参考 Pierre Bourdieu 的官僚领域概念和 Loïc Wacquant 对新自由主义市场资本主义的这一模型的发展。这篇文章源自 Phoebe Patey-Ferguson 最近在伦敦大学金史密斯学院戏剧与表演系完成的社会、文化和政治背景下的 LIFT 博士学位。1