Russian Theatre in Practice
Title | Russian Theatre in Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Skinner |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2019-04-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1474284442 |
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.
Russian Theatre in Practice
Title | Russian Theatre in Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Skinner |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2019-04-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1474284434 |
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.
A History of Russian Theatre
Title | A History of Russian Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Leach |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1999-11-29 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780521432207 |
A comprehensive history of Russian theatre, written by an international team of experts.
The Russian Theatre After Stalin
Title | The Russian Theatre After Stalin PDF eBook |
Author | Anatoly Smeliansky |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1999-07-08 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780521587945 |
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.
Translated and Visiting Russian Theatre in Britain, 1945–2015
Title | Translated and Visiting Russian Theatre in Britain, 1945–2015 PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Marsh |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2020-05-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 3030443337 |
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’?
Theatre Arts Magazine
Title | Theatre Arts Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | Sheldon Cheney |
Publisher | |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Performing arts |
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Theatre Arts Magazine
Title | Theatre Arts Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 708 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Theater |
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