The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Pitches, Jonathan; Aquilina, Stefan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold brings together a wealth of scholarship on one of the foremost innovators in European theatre. It presents a detailed picture of the Russian director's work from when it first emerged on the modern stage to its multifarious present-day manifestations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000764567
• Artikelnr.: 65978267

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Pitches is Professor of Theatre and Performance and Head of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds. He specialises in performer training, ecocriticism, and blended learning. He is founding co-editor of the journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. Stefan Aquilina is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Malta and Co-Director of the Stanislavsky Research Centre. He has published extensively on modern theatre (especially Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, and amateur theatre), the transmission of embodied practice, and interdisciplinary performance.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Histories

Part I: Histories

Introduction



Stefan Aquilina



1. Vsevolod Meyerhold and Cinema



Anna Kovalova



2. Meyerhold, the Musician
Nathan Thomas

3. Meyerhold in the 1930s: Language, Text, Performance



Anna Muza



4. Meyerhold's Hamlet: An Unrealised Dream



Michelle Assay



5. Looking at Meyerhold's Unseen Theatre



Amy Skinner



6. Performing Communism, or, What if we Took Meyerhold's Politics Seriously?



Teemu Paavolainen

Part II: Collaborations and Connections

Introduction



Stefan Aquilina



7. Meyerhold and Stanislavsky: Forty Years of Cordial Disagreement



Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu



8. An Unknown Legacy: Uncovering Traces of Savva Mamontov's Work in Meyerhold's Conditional Theatre



Donatella Gavrilovich



9. Meyerhold's Female Collaborators



Stefan Aquilina



10. The Influence of Giovanni Grasso on Meyerhold's Works, Theories, and Biography



Gabriele Sofia



11. Toward Conscious and Independent Action: Pyotr Lesgaft's System of Physical Education as Inspiration for Meyerhold's Biomechanics
Malgorzata Jablonska

12. Meyerhold and Trotsky



Robert Leach



Part III: Sources

Introduction



Jonathan Pitches



13. The Commedia Dell'arte Origins of Biomechanics: Actor Training and Collective Creation at the Borodinskaia Street Studio



Dassia N. Posner

The Borodinskaia Street Studio: Documents on Actor Training and Collective Creation

Translated and edited by Dassia N. Posner



14. Fragments of a Creative life: Introduction to Five New SourcesStefan Aquilina



Letters to Anton Chekhov, 1899-1904

Comments by Doctor Dapertutto on 'The Denial of Theatre' by Yury Aikhenvald, 1914

Theatre Pamphlets I: On Dramaturgy and Theatre Culture, 1921

From Meyerhold's Speech at the Discussion 'Creative Methods at the Meyerhold Theatre', 25 December 1930

On the Spatial Composition of Performance, 2 April 1936



Part IV: Practitioner Voices

Introduction



Jonathan Pitches



15. A Theatre Company as a Meyerholdian Experiment in Grotesque



Paul Stebbings and Phil Smith



16. The Evolution of Proper Job: Working with Meyerhold in the Contemporary British Theatre



James Beale, Franc Chamberlain, and Chloe Whitehead



17. Biomechanical diasporas: Practitioner Perspectives on the Transmission of Meyerhold's Techniques
Marcelo Bulgarelli, Terence Mann (Chapman), Claudio Massimo Paternò, and Robert Reid

18. Transmission Impossible



Ralph Räuker



19. Decoding the Riddle: Applying Meyerhold's Conception of the Director's Explication



Bryan Brown and Olya Petrakova



Part Vi: Meyerhold in New Contexts: Transnational Migrations

Introduction



Stefan Aquilina



20. Meyerhold's Influence on Twentieth-century Japanese Theatre



Min Tian



21. Nesting dolls: Sketches in Search of Meyerhold in Australia



Ian Maxwell and Chris Hay



22. An Unexpected Triangle: Politis, Meyerhold, and Karaghiozis in Interwar Greece



Antonis Glytzouris

23. Biomechanical Resonances in Turkey: The Working Method of Studio Oyunculari



Burç Idem Dinçel



24. Meyerhold's Influence on the Production Processes of PERFORMA TEATRO (Brazil) Arlete Cavaliere

Interdisciplinarities



Jonathan Pitches



Part Vii: Meyerhold in New Contexts: Interdisciplinarities

Introduction



Jonathan Pitches



25. Meyerhold in the 21st Century: The Meeting Points of Biomechanics and Postdramatic Performance



Diana Monteiro Toombs



26. The New Meyerhold Theatre: Visualising a Lost Architectural Experiment



Rachel Hann



27. Theatrical Biomechanics and Movement Science



Darren Tunstall



28. Biomechanics in Lockdown: Teaching Meyerhold in the age of COVID-19



Jonathan Pitches

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"Hugely informative - and also huge in physical size - The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold is a most important publication that is exemplary in its expression of the strength and diversity of theatre studies internationally today."

Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland in Galway, Stanislavski Studies, September 2023