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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext As the first comprehensive account of Meyerhold's approach to the theatrical event! it will be of interest to students and scholars of theatre studies! directors! and theatregoers. The book contains numerous illustrations from productions and chronology of Meyerhold's works. Zusammenfassung This book traces the career of the Russian revolutionary theatre director! Vsevolod Meyerhold! from his early years as a founding member of the Moscow Art Theatre with Stanislavsky! through his Symbolist period! his experiments with commedia dell'arte and other popular forms! to his demise in the Stalin era. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; 1. A life; 2. The fourth dimension; 3. The actor's business; 4. The mise-en-scène; 5. Rhythm; 6. Meanings; 7. Masquerade; 8. Meyerhold and Mayakovsky; 9. The legacy; Chronology; List of Meyerhold's productions; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
