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Vsevolod Meyerhold

Part of Directors in Perspective

Author: Robert Leach

Date Published: March 1993
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521318433

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This book traces the career of the Russian revolutionary theatre director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, from his early years as a founding member of the Moscow Art Theatre with Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, through his Symbolist period, his experiments with commedia dell'arte and other popular forms, to his demise in the Stalin era. Leach describes in detail Meyerhold's 'system' of theatre: his attitude to the audience, the place of the fore stage, 'biomechanics' and actor training, and the importance of the mise-en-scène. Finally, Leach explores Meyerhold's legacy, which can be detected in the work of Brecht, Eisenstein, Peter Brook and others.
- Chronicle of this influential theatre director in the context of Russian history and society
- Contains over 70 illustrations with many rare photographs of productions
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'Robert Leach's monograph provides lucid and essential insight into the magnificent modernist Vsevolod Meyerhold … a valuable and illuminating book.' Plays and Players
'Few Meyerhold scholars have contributed as lucid and insightful an understanding of Meyerhold's theories as Leach manages … Vsevolod Meyerhold is a cogently written overview of a fascinating theatrical era.' Theatre Three
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Product details
- Date Published: March 1993
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521318433
- length: 240 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.36kg
- contains: 75 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
1. A life
2. The fourth dimension
3. The actor's business
4. The mise-en-scène
5. Rhythm
6. Meanings
7. Masquerade
8. Meyerhold and Mayakovsky
9. The legacy
Chronology
List of Meyerhold's productions
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.
Author
Robert Leach