Victory Over the Sun by Robert Leach
The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun, first staged in 1913 in St Petersburg, was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering abstract sets and costumes designed by Kazimir Malevich. The iconic importance of Victory over the Sun as a theatrical event is universally acknowledged. This volume brings together the first fully annotated translation of the libretto of this 'anti-opera' and other important primary source materials, including the score, the set and costume designs and contemporary newspaper reviews. The second part of the volume provides a wide-ranging collection of interpretive essays which explore the artistic, literary and musical dimensions of the staging, its theatrical and historical context, its relationship to Italian Futurism, and its position within the Russian modernist movement.-
Grand-Guignol
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Londons Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror
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Theatre Workshop
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Marking Time
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In Comes I
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British South Asian Theatres
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The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 3
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John Mcgrath - Plays For England
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The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 4
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The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 1
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The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 2
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Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe
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Making Theatre in Northern Ireland
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British Theatre And The Red Peril
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Theatre and Politics in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland
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From Mimesis to Interculturalism
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Grand-Guignolesque
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Freedom's Pioneer
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Forms of Conflict
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Theatres of the Troubles
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Eighteenth-Century Brechtians
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On Actors And Acting
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Ancient Greek and Contemporary Performance
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Performing Grand-Guignol
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Singing Simpkin and other Bawdy Jigs
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Critical Essays on British South Asian Theatre
‘This project brings the highest possible standard of scholarship to bear on avant-garde cultural production’
Maria Gough, Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University
‘This collection opens fascinating and enriching views into a brief but powerful explosion.’
The Times Literary Supplement, 2 November 2012
‘Without doubt, it will be rewarding reading for anyone interested in Russian modernism.’
Slavic Review, Summer 2013, vol. 72, no.2
Rosamund Bartlett is Visiting Professor at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance and Visiting Research Fellow in the Music Department at King’s College London. She is the author and editor of several books, including Wagner and Russia (1995), Shostakovich in Context (2000) and biographies of Tolstoy and Chekhov, whose works she has also translated.
Sarah Dadswell is a cultural historian specializing in performance and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Drama at Exeter. Her doctoral thesis on the emergence and development of Russian Futurist performance 1910-1914 (University of Sheffield) formed part of an inter-institutional AHRB project, entitled ‘Russian Visual Arts, 1863-1913: Documents from the British Library Collection’, conducted by the Universities of Exeter and Sheffield.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780859898393 |
| ISBN 10 | 0859898393 |
| Title | Victory Over the Sun |
| Author | Rosamund Bartlett |
| Series | Exeter Performance Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Exeter |
| Year published | 2012-03-23 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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