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1 online resource (313 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations and plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Vakhtangov in the twentieth and twenty-first century theatre context: justifying theatre and liberating the actor; PART I Vakhtangov's theatrical youth; 1 The city of Vladikavkaz: fathers and sons; 2 Freedom and nature; 3 Vakhtangov's early theatrical influences: the Brothers Adelgeim; 4 To Moscow! To Moscow!; 5 Vakhtangov before the MAT; 6 Vakhtangov at the Adashev Theatre School; 7 Vakhtangov's trips abroad; PART II Vakhtangov at the Moscow Art Theatre |
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8 First meeting with Stanislavsky9 Gordon Craig and Hamlet at the MAT; 10 Novgorod-Seversky enterprise: the art of the provocation; 11 The formation of the First Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre; 12 Hauptmann's The Festival of Peace; 13 Life as creative play: the cultivation of a new man-actor; 14 Tackleton: The Cricket on the Hearth; 15 The Deluge; 16 The end of Leopold Sulerzhitsky: Vakhtangov as the new leader of the First Studio; 17 Ibsen's Rosmersholm; PART III The Vakhtangov Studio; 18 In the beginning, 1913-1915; 19 The Vakhtangov Studio crisis, 1916-1919 |
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20 The Vakhtangov Studio revival, 1919-1922PART IV The Vakhtangov Studio productions; 21 Maeterlinck's' The Miracle of Saint Anthony circa 1921; 22 Chekhov's The Wedding; PART V Three final masterpieces; 23 Erik XIV; 24 The Dybbuk as the Theatre of Archetypal Gesture: inventing Hebrew Theatre; 25 Princess Turandot: the threshold of creativity, or the making of a new man; Conclusion: Turandot and the Theatre of the Eternal Mask; Glossary of terms; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Yevgeny Vakhtangov was a pioneering theatre artist who married Stanislavski's demands for inner truth with a singular imaginative vision. Directly and indirectly, he is responsible for the making of our contemporary theatre: that is Andrei Malaev-Babel's argument in this, the first English-language monograph to consider Vakhtangov's life and work as actor and director, teacher and theoretician. Ranging from Moscow to Israel, from Fantastic Realism to Vakhtangov's futuristic projection, the theatre of the 'Eternal Mask', Yevgeny Vakhtangov: A Critical Portrait:> |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-271) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Vakhtangov, Evgeniĭ, 1883-1922 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Vakhtangov, Evgeniĭ, 1883-1922 fast |
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Theater -- Production and direction.
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Theater -- Philosophy.
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Acting -- Study and teaching -- Russia
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Acting & Auditioning.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- General.
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Acting -- Study and teaching
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Theater -- Philosophy
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Theater -- Production and direction
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Russia
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136979552 |
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1136979557 |
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