Soviet Theater - A Documentary History

Offers a panoramic history of Soviet theatre from the Bolshevik Revolution to the eventual collapse of the USSR. The authors celebrate in words and pictures a living art form that remained innovative and exciting, growing, adapting, and flourishing despite harsh, often illogical pressures inflicted upon its creators by a totalitarian government.

Info autore

Laurence Senelick is Fletcher Professor of Drama at Tufts University and a world-renowned scholar of Russian theatre. Sergei Ostrovsky was a dramaturge of the Tabakov Theatre-Studio in Moscow and a much-published critic in the Russian theatrical press.

Riassunto

Offers a panoramic history of Soviet theatre from the Bolshevik Revolution to the eventual collapse of the USSR. The authors celebrate in words and pictures a living art form that remained innovative and exciting, growing, adapting, and flourishing despite harsh, often illogical pressures inflicted upon its creators by a totalitarian government.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Laurence Senelick, Laurence Ostrovsky Senelick
• Con la collaborazione di: Sergei Ostrovsky (Editore), Ostrovsky Sergei (Editore), Laurence Senelick (Editore), Senelick Laurence (Editore)
• Editore: Yale University Press Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 08.08.2014
• EAN: 9780300194760
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19476-0
• Pagine: 784
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Theatre Studies, Social and cultural history, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era