Vsevolod Meyerhold by Robert Leach
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.
'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
'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
Leach, Robert: - Robert Leach was the first Artistic Director of the Lichfield Mysteries, and he selected and edited the plays in the cycle. He is a prize-winning poet, theatre director and academic. He has been Reader in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, and Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh University. He has acted professionally in Britain and U.S.A., and directed plays in Russia as well as Britain. His production of I Want a Baby by Sergei Tretyakov at the Teatr u Nikitskikh Vorot in Moscow in 1990 was the Russian premiere of this 1920s play which was banned in the Communist Soviet Union for decades.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521318433 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521318432 |
| Title | Vsevolod Meyerhold |
| Author | Robert Leach |
| Series | Directors In Perspective |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1993-02-26 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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