The Russian Theatre After Stalin

Author : Anatoly Smeliansky,Laurence Senelick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Laurence Senelick,Sergei Ostrovsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780300194760

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The Soviet Theater by Laurence Senelick,Sergei Ostrovsky Pdf

In this monumental work, Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky offer a panoramic history of Soviet theater from the Bolshevik Revolution to the eventual collapse of the USSR. Making use of more than eighty years’ worth of archival documentation, the authors celebrate in words and pictures a vital, living art form that remained innovative and exciting, growing, adapting, and flourishing despite harsh, often illogical pressures inflicted upon its creators by a totalitarian government. It is the first comprehensive analysis of the subject ever to be published in the English language.

Author : Herbert Marshall
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015002174848

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The Pictorial History of the Russian Theatre by Herbert Marshall Pdf

Author : Jesse Gardiner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350150638

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Soviet Theatre during the Thaw by Jesse Gardiner Pdf

The era known as the Thaw (1953-64) was a crucial period in the history of the Soviet Union. It was a time when the legacies of Stalinism began to unravel and when brief moments of liberalisation saw dramatic changes to society. By exploring theatre productions, plays and cultural debates during the Thaw, this book sheds light on a society in flux, in which the cultural norms, values and hierarchies of the previous era were being rethought. Jesse Gardiner demonstrates that the revival of avant-garde theatre during the Thaw was part of a broader re-engagement with cultural forms that had been banned under Stalin. Plays and productions that had fallen victim to the censor were revived or reinvented, and their authors and directors rehabilitated alongside waves of others who had been repressed during the Stalinist purges. At the same time, new theatre companies and practitioners emerged who reinterpreted the stylized techniques of the avant-garde for a post-war generation. This book argues that the revival of avant-garde theatre was vital in allowing the Soviet public to reimagine its relationship to state power, the West and its own past. It permitted the rethinking of attitudes and prejudices, and led to calls for greater cultural diversity across society. Playwrights, directors and actors began to work in innovative ways, seeking out the theatre of the future by re-engaging with the proscribed forms of the past.

Author : Amy Skinner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474284431

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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 : Laurence Senelick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Hélène Lazareff,Pierre Lazareff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047437481

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The Soviet Union After Stalin by Hélène Lazareff,Pierre Lazareff Pdf

Author : Nicholas Rzhevsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317455745

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The Modern Russian Theater: A Literary and Cultural History 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 : Cynthia Marsh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Theater
ISBN : LCCN:68023184

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The Russian Theatre by Anonim Pdf

Author : Clive Barker,Simon Trussler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052178901X

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New Theatre Quarterly 61: Volume 16, Part 1 by Clive Barker,Simon Trussler Pdf

Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.

Author : Clive Barker,Simon Trussler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-02-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052165596X

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New Theatre Quarterly 60: Volume 15, Part 4 by Clive Barker,Simon Trussler Pdf

New Theatre Quarterly provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning.

Author : Vreneli Farber
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 143310315X

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Stanislavsky in Practice by Vreneli Farber Pdf

Stanislavsky in Practice focuses on the course of study pursued today by aspiring actors in Russia and on the philosophy that informs this curriculum. It draws on extensive observation during the academic year 2000-2001 of the actor training program of the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts (SPGATI), one of the three most prestigious theatrical institutes in Russia, and on interviews of a wide array of individuals in the Academy. Although the years since 1991 have witnessed many changes in theater and in actor training - sources of funding, administration, choice of repertoire, new methodologies, etc. - there remains much continuity with the past. The core of this continuity is the Stanislavsky tradition, which nevertheless has been affected by the views of post-Soviet Russia. The developments in actor training from 1991 to 2001 reflect the challenges and problems faced by other institutions in the arts and sciences. In other words, the phenomenon of continuity and discontinuity with the past is characteristic of other institutions in Russia, cultural as well as scientific and educational.

Author : Анатолий Эфрос
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0820463388

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The Joy of Rehearsal by Анатолий Эфрос Pdf

Anatoly Efros (1925-1987), one of the most admired and original directors of post-war Russia, directed at the Central Children's Theatre, Malaya Bronnaya Theatre, Lenkom Theatre, Moscow Art Theatre, and Taganka Theatre, and elsewhere including the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and the Toen Theatre in Tokyo. He taught directing at the State Institute for Theatre Training and wrote several influential books. His productions received numerous awards for creative excellence. In The Joy of Rehearsal, his best-known work, Efros illuminates the dynamics of the director's creative work. He discusses the process of considering future plays, rehearsing them, and evaluating the results. Devoted to the principles of Konstantin Stanislavsky and Michael Chekhov, and inspired by the ideas of Bertolt Brecht, Efros also considers the practice of rehearsals and other features central to professional creative work. His productions of Shakespeare, Moliere, Chekhov and other classics were major events for those who looked to the theatre for social significance as well as aesthetic experience. Theatre students and professionals will benefit from the insights gained as Efros writes about his unique vision for the modern theatre.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789004394711

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Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator by Anonim Pdf

Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator explores this three-time Pulitzer prize-winning playwright’s innovations as a dramatist and theatrical artist and his contributions to the evolution of modern American drama.