Part One: The Soviet Period -- From Marxism-Leninism to Perestroika and Glasnost -- The Historical Role and Cultural Function of Russian Theatre for Young Audiences -- Thaw and Freeze -- Part Two: Perestroika and Glasnost -- The Change in Cultural Function with Glasnost and Perestroika -- The Central Children's Theatre -- The Moscow Theatre of the Young Spectator -- Part Three: A New Millennium -- Cultural Shifts and Theatrical Innovation -- Shaking the Past: The Russian Academic Youth Theatre -- Provoking Assumptions: Kama Ginkas at the Mtiuz
Summary
Moscow Theatres for Young People shows how the totalitarian ideology of the Soviet period shaped the practices of Soviet theatre for youth, as exemplified by the two oldest theatres for children and youth in Moscow: the Central Children's Theatre/RAMT and the Moscow Tiuz. Weaving together politics, economics, pedagogy, and aesthetics the author paints a vivid picture of the theatrical developments in Soviet/Russian theatre for young people from its inception in 1917 up to the new millennium, revealing the complex intersections between theatre and its socio-historical conditions
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-292) and index
