Russian Drama Of The Revolutionary Period

Author : Robert Russell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : 0389207578

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Russian Drama of the Revolutionary Period by Robert Russell Pdf

Contents: Russian Drama before the Revolution; Soviet Drama 1917-1921; The Civil War in Soviet Drama; Bulgakov's^R The White Guard and Flight; Satirical Comedy and Melodrama; The Plays of Nikolay Erdman; Mayakovsky's The Bedbug and The Bathhouse; Indirect Social Comment; Towards Socialist Realism

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Theater
ISBN : LCCN:68023184

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The Russian Theatre by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harold B. Segal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1993-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1555546900

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Twentieth-Century Russian Drama by Harold B. Segal Pdf

This work provides a survey, in English, of Russian drama since Chekhov. Segal discusses every major aspect of Russian dramatic literature in this century, from Gorky's pre-revolutionary plays through popular drama in the age of the New Economic Policy (1921-28) to the regimentation of the Stalinist and Cold War eras. Segal pays special attention to the suppressed works of experimenters, avant-gardists and dissidents that existed alongside the official government-sanctioned drama of Socialist Realism. New to this edition is material on dramatists writing since the period of perestroika and the collapse of communism.

Author : Douglas Clayton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780773564411

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Pierrot in Petrograd by Douglas Clayton Pdf

Douglas Clayton examines the tradition of commedia dell'arte as the Russian modernists inherited it, from its origins in Italian street theatre through its various transformations: in Italy (Gozzi and Goldini's plays); in France (the development of Pierrot and the restructuring of the plot); and in Germany (Tieck's and Hoffmann's metatheatre). He also analyses crucial texts by Gozzi, Lothar, Benavente, and Schnitzler that came to play a central role in the Russian theatre. Tracing the history of commedia dell'arte on the Russian stage, he demonstrates that the introduction of the tradition was theory-driven and discusses several milestone productions in the pre- and post-revolutionary period. Clayton examines the impact of commedia dell'arte, russified as the new theatrical genre of balagan, on both popular and lesser-known Russian playwrights, and, in conclusion, explores the significance of the commedia dell'arte as a theoretical underpinning for Sergei Eisenstein's theories of theatre and film.

Author : Robert Leach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134968411

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Revolutionary Theatre by Robert Leach Pdf

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 politics: the complete overthrow of the status quo and the installation of a radically new regime. Until now the efforts and influence of this idealistic group of theatrical avant-gardists have been largely unacknowledged; the oppressive reign of Stalin condemned many of them to death and their work to oblivion. In this enlightening work Robert Leach uncovers in fascinating detail their roots, their achievements and their legacy.

Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134260775

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Reference Guide to Russian Literature by Neil Cornwell Pdf

First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.

Author : Lynn Mally
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501706974

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Revolutionary Acts by Lynn Mally Pdf

During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, amateur theater groups sprang up in cities across the country. Workers, peasants, students, soldiers, and sailors provided entertainment ranging from improvisations to gymnastics and from propaganda sketches to the plays of Chekhov. In Revolutionary Acts, Lynn Mally reconstructs the history of the amateur stage in Soviet Russia from 1917 to the height of the Stalinist purges. Her book illustrates in fascinating detail how Soviet culture was transformed during the new regime's first two decades in power. Of all the arts, theater had a special appeal for mass audiences in Russia, and with the coming of the revolution it took on an important role in the dissemination of the new socialist culture. Mally's analysis of amateur theater as a space where performers, their audiences, and the political authorities came into contact enables her to explore whether this culture emerged spontaneously "from below" or was imposed by the revolutionary elite. She shows that by the late 1920s, Soviet leaders had come to distrust the initiatives of the lower classes, and the amateur theaters fell increasingly under the guidance of artistic professionals. Within a few years, state agencies intervened to homogenize repertoire and performance style, and with the institutionalization of Socialist Realist principles, only those works in a unified Soviet canon were presented.

Author : Robert Leach
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474402453

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Russian Futurist Theatre by Robert Leach Pdf

Russian Futurist Theatre explores is the first book to comprehensively uncover the Russian futurist theatre in all its virtuosity and diversity.

Author : Gary M. Hamburg
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817923662

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Russia in War and Revolution by Gary M. Hamburg Pdf

Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff (1885&–1971) led a remarkable life in the shadows of history. This book presents his memoirs for the first time, translated and annotated by his granddaughter Tanya A. Cameron. Born into a noble family, Olferieff was a Russian career military officer who observed firsthand key events of the early twentieth century, including the 1905&–7 revolution, the Great War, the collapse of the imperial state, and the civil wars in Ukraine and Crimea. Olferieff wrestles with moral and political questions, wondering whether his own advantages could be justified—and whether, if born a peasant, he might have thrown himself into the revolution. As Gary Hamburg writes in an illuminating companion essay, Olferieff wrote "to understand himself and to record his broken life for posterity" as a privileged observer of a bloody, historically pivotal era.

Author : Andrew Barratt,Robert Russell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Colin Chambers
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847146120

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The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre by Colin Chambers Pdf

International in scope, this book is designed to be the pre-eminent reference work on the English-speaking theatre in the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, it consists of some 2500 entries written by 280 contributors from 20 countries which include not only top-level experts, but, uniquely, leading professionals from the world of theatre. A fascinating resource for anyone interested in theatre, it includes: - Overviews of major concepts, topics and issues; - Surveys of theatre institutions, countries, and genres; - Biographical entries on key performers, playwrights, directors, designers, choreographers and composers; - Articles by leading professionals on crafts, skills and disciplines including acting, design, directing, lighting, sound and voice.

Author : Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137331304

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A History of Collective Creation by Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva Pdf

Collective creation - the practice of collaboratively devising works of performance - rose to prominence not simply as a performance making method, but as an institutional model. By examining theatre practices in Europe and North America, this book explores collective creation's roots in the theatrical experiments of the early twentieth century.

Author : Nicholas Rzhevsky
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780765629555

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The Modern Russian Theater by Nicholas Rzhevsky Pdf

This comprehensive and original survey of Russian theater in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first encompasses the major productions of directors such as Meyerhold, Stanislavsky, Tovostonogov, Dodin, and Liubimov that drew from Russian and world literature. It is based on a close analysis of adaptations of literary works by Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Blok, Bulgakov, Sholokhov, Rasputin, Abramov, and many others."The Modern Russian Stage" is the result of more than two decades of research as well as the author's professional experience working with the Russian director Yuri Liubimov in Moscow and London. The book traces the transformation of literary works into the brilliant stagecraft that characterizes Russian theater. It uses the perspective of theater performances to engage all the important movements of modern Russian culture, including modernism, socialist realism, post-moderninsm, and the creative renaissance of the first decades since the Soviet regime's collapse.

Author : Oliver Martin Sayler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Jonathan Pitches,Stefan Aquilina
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000764567

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The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold by Jonathan Pitches,Stefan Aquilina Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold brings together a wealth of scholarship on one of the foremost innovators in European theatre. It presents a detailed picture of the Russian director’s work from when it first emerged on the modern stage to its multifarious present-day manifestations. By combining an historical focus with the latest contemporary research from an international range of perspectives and authors, this collection marks an important moment in Meyerhold studies as well as offering a new assessment of his relation to today's theatre-making. Its dynamic blend of research is presented in five sections: Histories enlarges on more conventional subjects like the grotesque and Biomechanics, to overlooked topics such as Meyerhold's ‘failed’ projects and his work in film; Collaborations and Connections extends understandings of Meyerhold’s well-known collaborative capacities to consider new cultural influences and lesser known working relationships; Sources engages with hitherto untapped material in Meyerhold’s oeuvre by reproducing and contextualising previously untranslated primary sources on his work; Practitioner Voices offer lively, on the ground, testimony of the contemporary impact of Meyerhold's practice; Meyerhold in New Contexts maps the routes of his practice across continents and examines ways in which his work is being applied in a number of contemporary scenarios, such as motion capture, computer-based 3D visualisations, and the ‘new normal’ of digital pedagogy. This is a key resource for students and scholars of European Theatre, acting theory, and actor training, as well as for those more broadly interested in the socio-political impact of theatre.