Theater as co-operative

Graduation thesis ?Theater as co-operative? is researching the possibilities of using the legal form co-operative for running theater company of small size. Author is about to examine the advantages and the disadvantages of co-operative legal form, which is historically well based in the Czech Republic. We could meet here the co-operative legal form widely, not only for housing and agricultural co-op, but for many cultural organizations and activities at the end of the 19th and in the 1st half of the 20th century. This tradition was broken and unfortunately not restored after political revolution in 1989. Legal form of co-operation nowadays is nearly unknown for the theater purposes. Given that, we cannot find suitable legal form for the small theater companies in the Czech Republic, possibility of recovering co-operation legal form for theatre use seems as an interesting option. Thesis focuses on to description of characteristics of the co-operation legal form with a confrontation to others existing legal forms in the Czech Republic, which are usually used for the theatre companies. As an outcome we can see the reflection of the merits and cons of this legal form for theatrical activities and concept of the theatre co-operation regulations