Routledge, 2004. — 168 p. — (Routledge Performance Practitioners). Routledge Performance Practitioners are a series of introductory guides to key theatre-makers. These compact, well-illustrated and clearly written books will unravel the contribution of modern theatre's most charismatic innovators. Following in the footsteps of his renowned teacher Konstantin Stanislavsky,...
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994. — 274 p. — (Studies in Theatre History & Culture). — ISBN10: 0877454582; ISBN13: 978-0877454588. How, why, and according to whose definitions and requirements does a culture self-consciously create memory and project its fate? In this remarkable book, the first in English to treat Russian history as theatre and cultural performance,...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. — 264 p. — ISBN10: 1501707205; ISBN13: 978-1501707209 During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, amateur theater groups sprang up in cities across the country. Workers, peasants, students, soldiers, and sailors provided entertainment ranging from improvisations to gymnastics and from propaganda sketches to the plays of Chekhov. In...
Routledge, 2003. — 184 p. — (Routledge Performance Practitioners). This compact, well-illustrated and clearly written book offers an essential guide to the complex and contradictory nature of this master of theatre. Routledge Performance Practitioners are a series of introductory guides to key theatre-makers. These compact, well-illustrated and clearly written books will...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 784 p. — ISBN: 9780300194760. An authoritative and rich account of the Soviet Theater from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the demise of the USSR in 1991. Apart from character portraits it also offers colorful vignettes of life on the stage and off the stage. It also shows the loyalty of the audience that stuck with it through adversity and hard...
Scarecrow Press, 2007. — 611 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts). Despite constant hindrance from government interference and control, the Russian theater has produced many memorable playwrights, schools of thought, and plays, whose influence can be seen throughout the world. Nikolai Gogol''s The Inspector, Maksim Gor'kii's The Lower Depths, and Anton...
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