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The Russian theatre after Stalin / Anatoly Smeliansky ; translated by Patrick Miles.
LIBRA PN2724 .S64 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smelı͡anskiı̆, Anatoliı̆.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in modern theatre
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Soviet Union--History.
- Theater.
- Soviet Union.
- History.
- Theater--Russia (Federation)--History.
- Russia (Federation).
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- This is the first book to explore the world of the theatre in Russia after Stalin. Through his work at the Moscow Art Theatre, Anatoly Smeliansky is in a key position to analyse contemporary events on the Russian stage and he combines this first-hand knowledge with valuable archival material, some published here for the first time, to tell a fascinating and important story. Smeliansky chronicles developments from 1953 and the rise of a new Soviet theatre, and moves through the next four decades, highlighting the social and political events which shaped Russian drama and performance. The book also focuses on major directors and practitioners, including Yury Lyubimov, Oleg Yefremov, and Lev Dodin, among others, and contains a chronology, glossary of names, and informative illustrations. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Russian theatre history and to general theatre enthusiasts.
- Contents:
- Laurence Senelick
- 1 The Thaw (1953-1968) 1
- The mythology of socialist realism 1
- Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky initiate a new Soviet theatre 9
- The rise and fall of the Sovremennik Theatre 16
- Yury Lyubimov and the bivth of the Taganka Theatre 30
- Where we came from: Toystonogovs diagnosis 46
- Within the bounds of tendemess (Efros in the sixties) 58
- 2 The Frosts (1968-1985) 74
- Oleg Yetremov resuscitates the Art Theatre 75
- Yury Lyubimov's black cross 90
- The man from outside (Efros in the seventies and eighties) 111
- Georgy To vstonogov: encapsulating 'stagnation' 126
- 3 The Black Box (1985-1997) 142
- The paradoxes of freedom 142
- The splitting of the Moscow Arts 147
- Mark Zakharov and the King's games 155
- Family portrait (Kama Ginkas and Geta Yanovskaya) 168
- Having a body to be resurrected (Lev Dodin and Anatoly Vasilyev) 180
- Pyotr Fomenko's 'three cards' 202.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521582350
- 0521587948
- OCLC:
- 60157646
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