Russia S Theatrical Past

Author : Claudia R. Jensen,Ingrid Maier,Stepan Shamin,Daniel C. Waugh
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253056351

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Russia's Theatrical Past by Claudia R. Jensen,Ingrid Maier,Stepan Shamin,Daniel C. Waugh Pdf

In the 17th century, only Moscow's elite had access to the magical, vibrant world of the theater. In Russia's Theatrical Past, Claudia Jensen, Ingrid Maier, Stepan Shamin, and Daniel C. Waugh mine Russian and Western archival sources to document the history of these productions as they developed at the court of the Russian tsar. Using such sources as European newspapers, diplomats' reports, foreign travel accounts, witness accounts, and payment records, they also uncover unique aspects of local culture and politics of the time. Focusing on Northern European theatrical traditions, the authors explore the concept of intertheater, which describes transmissions between performing traditions, and reveal how the Muscovite court's interest in theater and other musical entertainment was strongly influenced by diplomatic contacts. Russia's Theatrical Past, made possible by an international research collaborative, offers fresh insight into how and why Russians went to such great efforts to rapidly develop court theater in the 17th century.

Author : Anatoly Smeliansky,Laurence Senelick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521587948

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The Russian Theatre After Stalin by Anatoly Smeliansky,Laurence Senelick Pdf

This is the first book to explore the world of the theatre in Russia after Stalin. Through his work at the Moscow Art Theatre, Anatoly Smeliansky is in a key position to analyse contemporary events on the Russian stage and he combines this first-hand knowledge with valuable archival material, some published here for the first time, to tell a fascinating and important story. Smeliansky chronicles developments from 1953 and the rise of a new Soviet theatre, and moves through the next four decades, highlighting the social and political events which shaped Russian drama and performance. The book also focuses on major directors and practitioners, including Yury Lyubimov, Oleg Yefremov, and Lev Dodin, among others, and contains a chronology, glossary of names, and informative illustrations.

Author : Murray Frame
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476608051

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The St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters by Murray Frame Pdf

The opulent St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters were subsidized and administered by the Russian court from the eighteenth century until the collapse of the tsarist order in 1917. This close association raises many questions about the uses of these theaters and where their loyalties lay in early twentieth century Russia. This history begins in 1900 with the theater flourishing but undergoing change, then chronicles the impact of war and revolution, as well as audience and administration, leading up to the effective re-establishment of state control over the theaters by the Bolsheviks in 1920. While the theaters were often allied with the forces of change, their grandeur harked back to the age of the tsars, creating an irony that is explored here in depth. Photographs and diagrams of the theaters are included, along with photographs of the central historical figures, and contemporary cartoons referring to the theaters.

Author : Stefan Aquilina
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350066090

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Modern Theatre in Russia by Stefan Aquilina Pdf

What did modern theatre in Russia look like and how did it foreground tradition building and transmission processes? The book challenges conventional historiographical approaches by weaving contemporary theories on cultural transmission into its historical narrative. It argues that processes of transmission – training spaces, acting manuals, photographic evidence, newspaper reports, international networking, informal encounters, cultural memories – contribute to the formation and consolidation of theatre traditions. Through English translations of rare Russian sources, the book expounds on: *side-lined material on Stanislavsky, including his relationship with German actor Ludwig Barnay, use of improvisation at the First Studio, and rehearsal practices for Artists and Admirers (1933); *Valentin Smyshlaev's acting manual The Technique to Process Stage Performance and the creation of hybrid practices; *proletarian theatre as an amateur-professional combination and force in the transformation of everyday life, as seen in the Proletkult's volume Art at the Workers' Clubs; *Meyerhold's Borodin Studio as an early example of Practice as Research, his European tour of 1930, and international persona as depicted in newspapers published in the West; and *Asja Lacis's work with children, which contributes to current efforts to address the gender imbalance that is often characteristic of modernism. This historical-theoretical investigation is combined with practical exercises that provide a more experiential understanding of the modern performance realities involved. In this way, the book speaks not only to theatre scholars and historians, but also to students and practitioners engaged in practical work.

Author : Andrew Barratt,Robert Russell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349207497

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Russian Theatre In The Age Of Modernism by Andrew Barratt,Robert Russell Pdf

Author : Cynthia Marsh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030443337

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Translated and Visiting Russian Theatre in Britain, 1945–2015 by Cynthia Marsh Pdf

This book tackles questions about the reception and production of translated and untranslated Russian theatre in post-WW2 Britain: why in British minds is Russia viewed almost as a run-of-the-mill production of a Chekhov play. Is it because Chekhov is so dominant in British theatre culture? What about all those other Russian writers? Many of them are very different from Chekhov. A key question was formulated, thanks to a review by Susannah Clapp of Turgenev’s A Month in the Country: have the British staged a ‘Russia of the theatrical mind’?

Author : Gary Thurston
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0810115506

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The Popular Theatre Movement in Russia, 1862-1919 by Gary Thurston Pdf

In The Popular Theatre Movement in Russia, Gary Thurston illuminates the "popular theater" of pre-revolutionary Russia, which existed alongside the performing arts for the nation's economic elite. He shows how from Peter the Great's creation of Europe's first theater for popular enlightenment to Lenin's decree nationalizing all Soviet theaters, Russian rulers aggressively exploited this enduring art form for ideological ends rather than for its commercial potential. After the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, educated Russians began to present plays as part of a crusade to "civilize" the peasants. Relying on archival and published material virtually unknown outside Russia, this study looks at how playwrights criticized Russian social and political realities, how various groups perceived their plays, and how the plays motivated viewers to change themselves or change their circumstances. The picture that emerges is of a potent civic art influential in a way that eluded and challenged authoritarian control.

Author : Catherine A. Schuler
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587298479

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Theatre and Identity in Imperial Russia by Catherine A. Schuler Pdf

What role did the theatre—both institutionally and literally—play in Russia’s modernization? How did the comparatively harmonious relationship that developed among the state, the nobility, and the theatre in the eighteenth century transform into ideological warfare between the state and the intelligentsia in the nineteenth? How were the identities of the Russian people and the Russian soul configured and altered by actors in St. Petersburg and Moscow? Using the dramatic events of nineteenth-century Russian history as a backdrop, Catherine Schuler answers these questions by revealing the intricate links among national modernization, identity, and theatre. Schuler draws upon contemporary journals written and published by the educated nobility and the intelligentsia—who represented the intellectual, aesthetic, and cultural groups of the day—as well as upon the laws of the Russian empire and upon theatrical memoirs. With fascinating detail, she spotlights the ideologically charged binaries ascribed to prominent actors—authentic/performed, primitive/civilized, Russian/Western—that mirrored the volatility of national identity from the Napoleonic Wars through the reign of Alexander II. If the path traveled by Russian artists and audiences from the turn of the nineteenth century to the era of the Great Reforms reveals anything about Russian culture and society, it may be that there is nothing more difficult than being Russian in Russia. By exploring the ways in which theatrical administrators, playwrights, and actors responded to three tsars, two wars, and a major revolt, this carefully crafted book demonstrates the battle for the hearts and minds of the Russian people.

Author : Oliver Martin Sayler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1330269055

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The Russian Theatre by Oliver Martin Sayler Pdf

Excerpt from The Russian Theatre The persistence of the theatre under the Russian Revolution is not without parallel in social and political upheavals. Paris went to the playhouse under Jacobin just as under Bourbon, under the Commune just as under the Empire or the Republic. The nature of the persisting theatre in Moscow and Petrograd, however, is a distinctive phenomenon of the Russian Revolution, an eloquent comment upon the inherent nature of that theatre and upon the Russian character and life. In previous times of social stress, the playhouse of pastime satisfied the public caprice. In Revolutionary Russia, the theatre of profound introspection and inspiration is the one which has persisted. The serious theatre, the theatre as an art and not a pastime or an industry, has persisted through the anxious and constraining days of the Russian upheaval because that has been its firmly established spirit for a hundred years. The fact that it has weathered the storms of the class struggle, of the Terror and of starvation proves that it is the honest expression of Russian character and illuminates the imaginative and spiritual quality of Russian life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Robert Leach,Victor Borovsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521432200

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A History of Russian Theatre by Robert Leach,Victor Borovsky Pdf

A comprehensive history of Russian theatre, written by an international team of experts.

Author : Laurence Senelick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442249271

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Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre by Laurence Senelick Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre covers the history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on individual actors, directors, designers, entrepreneurs, plays, playhouses and institutions, Censorship, Children’s Theater, Émigré Theater, and Shakespeare in Russia. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russian Theatre.

Author : Molly Flynn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Historical drama
ISBN : 1526126192

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Witness Onstage by Molly Flynn Pdf

Witness Onstage is a detailed study of the remarkable growth of documentary theatre forms in Russian since the early 2000s. It draws on the author's work as a performer, producer, and researcher of documentary theatre both in Russia and internationally to provide new perspective on the mechanics of theatre as a venue for civic engagement.

Author : Amy Skinner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474284448

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Russian Theatre in Practice by Amy Skinner Pdf

Amidst the turmoil of political revolution, the stage directors of twentieth-century Russia rewrote the rules of theatre making. From realism to the avant-garde, politics to postmodernism, and revolution to repression, these practitioners shaped perceptions of theatre direction across the world. This edited volume introduces students and practitioners alike to the innovations of Russia's directors, from Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold to Anatoly Efros, Oleg Efremov and Genrietta Ianovskaia. Strongly practical in its approach, Russian Theatre in Practice: The Director's Guide equips readers with an understanding of the varying approaches of each director, as well as the opportunity to participate and explore their ideas in practice. The full range of the director's role is covered, including work on text, rehearsal technique, space and proxemics, audience theory and characterization. Each chapter focuses on one director, exploring their historical context, and combining an examination of their directing theory and technique with practical exercises for use in classroom or rehearsal settings. Through their ground-breaking ideas and techniques, Russia's directors still demand our attention, and in this volume they come to life as a powerful resource for today's theatre makers.

Author : Milly S. Barranger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UVA:X000975910

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Theatre Past and Present by Milly S. Barranger Pdf

Author : Catherine Schuler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136155970

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Women in Russian Theatre by Catherine Schuler Pdf

Women in Russian Theatre is a fascinating feminist counterpoint to the established area of Russian theatre populated by male artists such as Stanislavsky, Chekov and Meyerhold. With unprecedented access to newly-opened files in Russia, Catherine Schuler brings to light the actresses who had an impact upon Russian modernist theatre. Schuler brings to light the extradordinary lives and work of eight Russian actresses who flourished on the stage between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.