A history of the theatre laboratory / Bryan Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Bryan Keith, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental theater--Russia--History.

Experimental theater.

Experimental theater--Soviet Union--History.

Experimental theater--Russia (Federation)--History.

History.

Russia.

Russia (Federation).

Soviet Union.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

History of the theater laboratory

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

"The term 'theatre laboratory' has entered the regular lexicon of theatre artists, producers, scholars and critics alike. And yet, use of the term is far from unified, often operating as an catch-all for a web of intertwining practices, territories, pedagogies and ideologies. Russian theatre, however, has seen a clear emergence of laboratory practice that can be divided into two distinct organisational structures: the studio and the masterskaya (artisanal guild). By assessing these structures, Bryan Brown offers two archetypes of group organisation that can be applied across the arts and sciences, and reveals a complex history of the laboratory's characteristics and functions that support the term's use in theatre. This book's discursive, historical approach has been informed substantially by contemporary practice, through interviews with, and examinations of, practitioners including Slava Polunin, Anatoli Vassiliev, Sergei Zhenovach and Dmitry Krymov"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

An organisational history

What's in a name

Why Russia

Retracing the name

The skete

From study to studio

The studio in visual art: cobra, a collective vitality

The studio in science: the Copenhagen spirit

The studio in Russian theatre

Creating a commune: the first studio's theatre-obshchina

Oases of curiosity: the holidays of Slava Polunin

A new camaraderie in faith: the Theatre Art Studio

For the sake of what? The studio as laboratory of communion

From workshop to masterskaya

The masterskaya in visual art: Rembrandt, the master as auteur

The masterskaya in science: Thomas Edison and the contradictory positions of his invention factory

The masterskaya in Russian theatre

The visionary authority of Vsevolod Meyerhold

I need them to fear me: Anatoli Vassiliev and the School of Dramatic Art

The ecstasy of togetherness: the Dmitry Krymov laboratory

For the sake of what? The masterskaya as laboratory of authority

The value of a theatre laboratory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Brown, Bryan Keith, 1976- History of the theatre laboratory.

ISBN:

9781138679993

1138679992

9781138680005

1138680001

OCLC:

1047523792