The Routledge companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold / eedited by Jonathan Pitches and Stefan Aquilina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pitches, Jonathan, 1968- editor.

Aquilina, Stefan, editor.

Series:

Routledge theatre and performance companions.

Routledge theatre and performance companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meĭerkholʹd, V. Ė. (Vsevolod Ėmilʹevich), 1874-1940--Criticism and interpretation.

Meĭerkholʹd, V. Ė.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 507 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2023.

Summary:

"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. By combining an historical focus with the latest contemporary research from an international range of perspectives and authors, this collection marks an important moment in Meyerhold studies as well as offering a new assessment of his relation to today's theatre-making. Its dynamic blend of research is presented in five sections: Histories enlarges on more conventional subjects like the grotesque and biomechanics, to overlooked topics such as Meyerhold's 'failed' projects and his work in film; Collaborations and Connections extends understandings of Meyerhold's well-known collaborative capacities to consider new cultural influences and lesser known working relationships; Sources engages with hitherto untapped material in Meyerhold's oeuvre by reproducing and contextualising previously untranslated primary sources on his work; Practitioner Voices radically extends geographical understandings of Meyerhold's practice by mapping the routes of migration across continents; Meyerhold in New Contexts examines ways in which Meyerhold's work is being applied in a number of contemporary scenarios, such as motion capture, computer-based 3D visualizations and the 'new normal' of digital pedagogy. This is a key resource for students and scholars of European Theatre, acting theory and actor training, as well as for those more broadly interested in the socio-political impact of theatre"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Vsevolod Meyerhold and cinema / Anna KovalovaMeyerhold, the musician / Nathan ThomasMeyerhold in the 1930s : language, text, performance / Anna MuzaMeyerhold's Hamlet : an unrealised dream / Michelle AssayLooking at Meyerhold's unseen theatre / Amy SkinnerPerforming communism, or, What if we took Meyerhold's politics seriously? / Teemu PaavolainenMeyerhold and Stanislavsky : forty years of cordial disagreement / Marie-Christine Autant-MathieuAn unknown legacy : uncovering traces of Savva Mamontov's work in Meyerhold's conditional theatre / Donatella GavrilovichMeyerhold's female collaborators / Stefan AquilinaThe influence of Giovanni Grasso on Meyerhold's works, theories, and biography / Gabriele SofiaToward conscious and independent action : Pyotr Lesgaft's system of physical education as inspiration for Meyerhold's biomechanics / Małgorzata JabłońskaMeyerhold and Trotsky / Robert LeachThe commedia dell'arte origins of biomechanics : actor training and collective creation at the Borodinskaia Street Studio / Dassia N. PosnerThe Borodinskaia Street Studio : documents on actor training and collective creation / translated and edited by Dassia N. PosnerFragments of a creative life : introduction to five new sources / Stefan AquilinaLetters to Anton Chekhov, 1899-1904Comments by Doctor Dapertutto on 'The Denial of Theatre' by Yury Aikhenvald, 1914Theatre pamphlets I : on dramaturgy and theatre culture, 1921From Meyerhold's speech at the discussion 'Creative methods at the Meyerhold Theatre', 1930On the spatial composition of performance, 1936A theatre company as a Meyerholdian experiment in grotesque / Paul Stebbings and Phil SmithThe evolution of Proper Job : working with Meyerhold in contemporary British theatre / James Beale, Franc Chamberlain, and Chloe WhiteheadBiomechanical diasporas : practitioner perspectives on the transmission of Meyerhold's techniques / Marcelo Bulgarelli, Terence Mann (Chapman), Claudio Massimo Paternò, Robert ReidTransmission impossible / Ralf RäukerDecoding the riddle : applying Meyerhold's conception of the director's explication / Bryan Brown and Olya PetrakovaMeyerhold's influence on twentieth-century Japanese theatre / Min TianNesting dolls : sketches in search of Meyerhold in Australia / Chris Hay and Ian MaxwellAn unexpected triangle : Politis, Meyerhold, and Karaghiozis in interwar Greece / Antonis GlytzourisBiomechanical resonances in Turkey : the working method of Studio Oyuncuları / Burç İdem DinçelMeyerhold's influence on the production processes of Peforma Teatro (Brazil) / Arlete CavaliereMeyerhold in the 21st century : the meeting points of biomechanics and postdramatic performance / Diana Monteiro ToombsThe new Meyerhold theatre : visualizing a lost architectural experiment / Rachel HannTheatrical biomechanics and movement science / Darren TunstallBiomechanics in lockdown : teaching Meyerhold in the age of Covid-19 / Jonathan Pitches.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Routledge, viewed February 1, 2023).

ISBN:

1-00-311080-0

1-000-76449-4

1-003-11080-0

9781003110804

OCLC:

1336992362