CONTENTS
Introduction.

1. First steps.
2. The festival staff.
3. Defining the festival.
4. Planning and implementation.
5. During and after the festival.

Appendix [bibliography].

According to Aristotle, theatre healed the audience by purging their pity and terror. The tragic hero, like Oedipus, commits an act of shame or horror, suffers, and is finally freed from suffering through an understanding of himself. The audience participates in this process with the tragic figure.