Modern theatre in Russia : tradition building and transmission processes /
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London, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Methuen Drama,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- Modern theatre and the problem of continuity
- Lines of continuity in the Russian theatre tradition
- Implications to tradition building
- Milestone, stagnation and renewal
- concerted effort
- Cultural transmission
- Chapter Summaries
- Suggestions for practice
- Note on the practical exercises
- Transmission exercise and belts
- 2. Stanislavsky: Renewing tradition through transmission
- Renewing theatre traditions
- Scenic Transmission: The case of Ludwig Barnay
- First Studio: An example of Democratic Levelling
- Rehearsal Transmission: Stanislavsky's work on Artists and Admirers
- international dimension of the Stanislavsky acting tradition
- Conclusion
- Suggestions for practice
- Gorky Method
- 3. Misinterpretation of theatre practice: Stanislavsky-Smyshlaev
- Why cultural transmission?
- Smyshlaev's diary: January-December 1917
- Theatre references in Smyshlaev's diary
- Stanislavsky-Smyshlaev rift: Collective creation
- use of improvisation
- Work processes in The Technique to Process Stage Performance
- Conclusion
- Suggestions for practice
- From individual to group work
- 4. Amateur and proletarian theatre in post-revolutionary Russia
- Aesthetics and theatricality on the amateur stage
- Historiographical difficulties
- Transmission point 1: Critical processing
- Transmission point 2: Collective creation and independent action - from the studio to everyday life
- Insurrection as an example of proletarian theatre
- Conclusion
- Suggestions for practice
- Amateur aesthetics and collective practices
- Political scenarios and improvisation
- 5. Meyerhold: Bias in transmission processes
- Researching Meyerhold: From bias to myth-making
- Recurrence and difference in Meyerhold's work
- Meyerhold's rediscovery of past traditions
- Borodin Studio as an instance of Practice as Research
- Meyerhold Theatre's foreign tour of 1930
- Meyerhold's internationalism discerned from Western newspapers
- Suggestions for practice
- Introducing Meyerhold's theatricality
- `Expressing thoughts spatially'
- 6. Lesser-known names: Rediscovering female voices
- status of women in early Soviet Russia
- Contributions of female artists
- case of Asja Lacis
- Conclusion
- Axioms about modern theatre in Russia
- Organizational principles when running transmission workshops.