252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Revolutionary Theatre is the first full-length study of the dynamic theatre created in Russia in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution. Fired by social and political as well as artistic zeal, a group of directors, playwrights, actors and organisers collected around the charismatic Vsevolod Meyerhold. Their aim was to achieve in the theatre what Lenin and his comrades had achieved in... Read more
Illustrations Introduction Transliteration Abbreviations and Terms Dramatis Personae Part 1. Before the Revolution Part 2. Petrograd 1917-1920 Part 3. Moscow 1920-1921 Part 4. Revolutionary Theatres, 1921-24 Part 5. What Has Happened To Us All? Chronology Select Bibliography Notes Index
Biography
Robert Leach is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, and a freelance theatre director. In 1990 he directed the Russian premiere of Sergei Trekyakov's I Want a Baby in Moscow, and in 1994 was artistic director for the Lichfield Mysteries. He is the author of a major study of Vsevolod Meyerhold and is editing a forthcoming history of Russian theatre.
`Illuminating and challenging...it will introduce a great number of readers to this extraordinary period of creativity and innovation in theatre.' - Richard Gough, Centre for Performance Research
