1st Edition

Yevgeny Vakhtangov A Critical Portrait

By Andrei Malaev-Babel Copyright 2013
312 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

Yevgeny Vakhtangov was a pioneering theatre artist who married Stanislavski’s demands for inner truth with a singular imaginative vision. Directly and indirectly, he is responsible for the making of our contemporary theatre: that is Andrei Malaev-Babel’s argument in this, the first English-language monograph to consider Vakhtangov’s life and work as actor and director, teacher and theoretician.... Read more

PART A. Biography in social and artistic context PART B. Summary and analysis of key writings PART C. Description and analysis of key productions PART D. Practical exercises PART E. Glossary of key terms and bibliography.

Biography

Andrei Malaev-Babel is an actor, director and scholar, a graduate of the Vakhtangov Theatre Institute in Moscow. He serves as an Associate Professor of Theatre at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, and on the board of the Michael Chekhov Association. He is the editor of The Vakhtangov Sourcebook.