IFTR
FIRT
International Federation for Theatre Research
A provisional Executive Committee was formed, composed of Ifan Kyrte Fletcher (Great Britain), Giorgio Brunacci (Italy), Rose-Marie Moudouès (France), Edmund Stadler (Switzerland) and Andre Veinstein (France), who represented SIBMAS (International Society of Libraries and Museums of Performing Arts), founded at Zagreb in 1954. This Committee met in Berne in 1956 and, in collaboration with the Centro Ricerche Teatrali, Rome, organised a second Conference, which took place in July 1957 at the Cini Foundation in Venice, with the participation of seventeen countries. Here IFTR was formally established and drew up a Constitution with the following aims (essentially unchanged throughout the history of IFTR):