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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Acknowledgements
Russian theatre in world theatre Robert Leach
Russian theatre in Russian culture Victor Borovsky
1. The origins of the Russian theatre Catriona Kelly
2. The organisation of the Russian theatre, 1645-1763 Victor Borovsky
3. The emergence of the Russian theatre, 1763-1800 Victor Borovsky
4. Writers and repertoires, 1800-1850 A. D. P. Briggs
5. Actors and acting, 1820-1850 Anatoly Altschuller
6. Popular, provincial and amateur theatres, 1820-1900 Catriona Kelly
7. Realism in the Russian theatre, 1850-1882 Cynthia Marsh
8. Aleksandr Ostrovsky - dramatist and director Kate Sealey Rahman
9. The Russian Imperial Ballet Andy Adamson
10. Russian opera John Warrack
11. Imperial and private theatres, 1882-1905 Arkady Ostrovsky
12. Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre, 1898-1938 Jean Benedetti
13. The Silver Age, 1905-1917 Spencer Golub
14. Revolutionary theatre, 1917-1930 Robert Leach
15. The Theatre and Socialist Realism, 1929-1953 Inna Solovyova
16. The 'thaw' and after, 1953-1986 Birgit Beumers
17. Russian theatre in the post-communist era Anatoly Smeliansky
18. Russian theatre and Western theatres Robert Leach
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