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Meyerhold: The Art of Conscious Theater

Marjorie L. Hoover

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Meyerhold: The Art of Conscious Theater

The Russian theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940) has since his «repression» under Stalin resumed his rightful place alongside Stanislavsky as a founder of twentieth-century «director's theater.» But he has been simplistically stereotyped as a radical of the bare stage and biomechanical gymnastics for actors. Marjorie L. Hoover surveyed his whole forty-year career, official as well as experimental. With Leon Bakst and Alexander Golovin, among others, he pioneered the modern «designer's theater,» staging both drama and opera in painterly luxury before 1917, and thereafter he led a revolution in theater art together with several designers, among whom, El Lissitzky, Popova and Rodchenko.

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Publisher
Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Year
1988
ISBN-13
9780870231247
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Theater directionRussian theater historyStage design

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