Russian & Soviet theatre. Tradition & the avant-garde. Transl. from Russian.

Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - PRE-REVOLUTIONARY THEATRICAL EXPLORATIONS Vyacheslav Ivanov's Ideas on Theatre -- The Theatrical Experiments of the Russian Futurists -- The Kamerny Theatre -- Stanislavsky and Meyerhold. Two Studios -- THEATRE DURING THE FIRST YEARS OF REVOLUTION 'Everything Anew!' -- Mass Festivals. Proletkult. Agit-plays -- 'In Tune With the Revolution' -- Vakhtangov -- The Transformation of Melodrama -- Sergei Radlov's 'Popular Comedy' -- 'Theatrical October' -- THEATRICAL EXPANSION NEP, LEF and Theatre -- The Denuding of Theatre -- Biomechanics -- 'Circusization' -- 'Music-hallization' -- Expressionist Drama and Constructions -- Political Revues -- Tairov's Harlequinades and Tragedies -- Granovsky, Mikhoels, Zuskin -- Les Kurbas -- Shakespearian Productions -- 'Back to Ostrovsky!' -- 'On the Issue of the Day' -- EXTREMES CONVERGE In Search of A Hero -- Stanislavsky and Meyerhold: Convergent Movement -- Mikhail Chekhov and the Second Moscow Art Theatre -- The 'Structural Realism' of the Kamerny Theatre -- From 'Social Mask' to Theatrical Portrait -- Terentiev's Reply -- Mikhail Sokolovsky and the 'TRAM Movement' -- The 'Magnifying Glass' of Comedy -- RAPP and Theatre. The 'Indoor' and 'Outdoor' Debate -- SOME OUTCOMES Afinogenov and Kirshon Nikolai Pogodin's Industrial Poems -- Documentary and Legend -- Avant-garde or Arri�-garde? -- The Turn to Realism. ISBN 9780500014332