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Do Contemporary Plays Feature Fewer Roles? Some Empirical Evidence

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  • Sacit Hadi Akdede

    (Department of Public Finance, Adnan Menderes University, Nazilli Ä°Ä°BF, Aydin Turkey)

  • Victor A. Ginsburgh

    (ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

  • Aynur Uckac

    (Department of Public Finance, Adnan Menderes University, Nazilli Ä°Ä°BF, Aydin Turkey)

Abstract

This paper shows that the number of roles in theatre plays has been decreasing over time. Playwrights seem to internalize the costs of producing plays with too many roles by downsizing. This downsizing is not a recent phenomenon: it is going for many decades. We also analyze which plays get produced. This paper uses a unique data set of repertory archives of Turkish State Theatres, covering plays from decades.

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  • Sacit Hadi Akdede & Victor A. Ginsburgh & Aynur Uckac, 2018. "Do Contemporary Plays Feature Fewer Roles? Some Empirical Evidence," ACEI Working Paper Series AWP-01-2018, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Jun 2018.
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    Keywords

    Number of roles; cast size; Baumol cost disease; playwrights; Turkish State; Theatre;
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    • Z11 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economics of the Arts and Literature

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