Meyerhold: A Revolution in Theatre (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture)
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (873 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087745633X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Informative and interesting" according to C. Daehler. The tragic story of an interesting and creative theatre theory and technique innovator. Perfect book for supplementing my research paper on Meyerhold, and having it on the kindle made the notes easily accessible.
In this fully revised and greatly expanded edition of his 1979 The Theatre of Meyerhold, Edward Braun draws upon newly released archival documents -- including secret police files -- to take us through the journey of this extraordinary life of experiment and discovery. He traces the major influences upon Meyerhold during his formative years, moves on to examine his artistic activities in the changing aesthetic, social, and political environment of the day, and in the end stages for us the final personal drama of his life, played out against the Soviet bureaucracy.
His scenic invention and use of cinematic techniques culminated in his 1926 staging of Gogol's The Government Inspector as well as reinterpretations of classics such as Pushkin's Queen of Spades. Decked out with 145 photographs of set reproductions, costumes and posters, Braun's vibrant study restores Meyerhold's radical legacy for contemporary theater. Braun, a drama professor in England, sees Meyerhold as a supreme director-poet for whom the theater was designed to shatter the audience's complacency. From Publishers Weekly Legendary Russian theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940) led the revolt against naturalism and flouted Stalinist socialist realism with his avant-garde productions incorporating mime, constructivist sets, musical scores and formalized scenery