The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold

Name: The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold
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Erschienen am 9. November 2022

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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 offer lively, on the ground, testimony of the contemporary impact of Meyerhold's practice; Meyerhold in New Contexts maps the routes of his practice across continents and examines ways in which his work is being applied in a number of contemporary scenarios, such as motion capture, computer-based 3D visualisations, 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.

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"Hugely informative - and also huge in physical size - The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold is a most important publication that is exemplary in its expression of the strength and diversity of theatre studies internationally today."

Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland in Galway, Stanislavski Studies, September 2023

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Part I: Histories

Part I: Histories

Introduction

Stefan Aquilina

1. Vsevolod Meyerhold and Cinema

Anna Kovalova

2. Meyerhold, the Musician
Nathan Thomas

3. Meyerhold in the 1930s: Language, Text, Performance

Anna Muza

4. Meyerhold's Hamlet: An Unrealised Dream

Michelle Assay

5. Looking at Meyerhold's Unseen Theatre

Amy Skinner

6. Performing Communism, or, What if we Took Meyerhold's Politics Seriously?

Teemu Paavolainen

Part II: Collaborations and Connections

Introduction

Stefan Aquilina

7. Meyerhold and Stanislavsky: Forty Years of Cordial Disagreement

Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu

8. An Unknown Legacy: Uncovering Traces of Savva Mamontov's Work in Meyerhold's Conditional Theatre

Donatella Gavrilovich

9. Meyerhold's Female Collaborators

Stefan Aquilina

10. The Influence of Giovanni Grasso on Meyerhold's Works, Theories, and Biography

Gabriele Sofia

11. Toward Conscious and Independent Action: Pyotr Lesgaft's System of Physical Education as Inspiration for Meyerhold's Biomechanics
Malgorzata Jablonska

12. Meyerhold and Trotsky

Robert Leach

Part III: Sources

Introduction

Jonathan Pitches

13. The Commedia Dell'arte Origins of Biomechanics: Actor Training and Collective Creation at the Borodinskaia Street Studio

Dassia N. Posner

The Borodinskaia Street Studio: Documents on Actor Training and Collective Creation

Translated and edited by Dassia N. Posner

14. Fragments of a Creative life: Introduction to Five New SourcesStefan Aquilina

Letters to Anton Chekhov, 1899-1904

Comments by Doctor Dapertutto on 'The Denial of Theatre' by Yury Aikhenvald, 1914

Theatre Pamphlets I: On Dramaturgy and Theatre Culture, 1921

From Meyerhold's Speech at the Discussion 'Creative Methods at the Meyerhold Theatre', 25 December 1930

On the Spatial Composition of Performance, 2 April 1936

Part IV: Practitioner Voices

Introduction

Jonathan Pitches

15. A Theatre Company as a Meyerholdian Experiment in Grotesque

Paul Stebbings and Phil Smith

16. The Evolution of Proper Job: Working with Meyerhold in the Contemporary British Theatre

James Beale, Franc Chamberlain, and Chloe Whitehead

17. Biomechanical diasporas: Practitioner Perspectives on the Transmission of Meyerhold's TechniquesMarcelo Bulgarelli, Terence Mann (Chapman), Claudio Massimo Paterno, and Robert Reid

18. Transmission Impossible

Ralph Raeuker

19. Decoding the Riddle: Applying Meyerhold's Conception of the Director's Explication

Bryan Brown and Olya Petrakova

Part Vi: Meyerhold in New Contexts: Transnational Migrations

Introduction

Stefan Aquilina

20. Meyerhold's Influence on Twentieth-century Japanese Theatre

Min Tian

21. Nesting dolls: Sketches in Search of Meyerhold in Australia

Ian Maxwell and Chris Hay

22. An Unexpected Triangle: Politis, Meyerhold, and Karaghiozis in Interwar Greece

Antonis Glytzouris

23. Biomechanical Resonances in Turkey: The Working Method of Studio Oyunculari

Burc Idem Dincel

24. Meyerhold's Influence on the Production Processes of PERFORMA TEATRO (Brazil) Arlete Cavaliere

Interdisciplinarities

Jonathan Pitches

Part Vii: Meyerhold in New Contexts: Interdisciplinarities

Introduction

Jonathan Pitches

25. Meyerhold in the 21st Century: The Meeting Points of Biomechanics and Postdramatic Performance

Diana Monteiro Toombs

26. The New Meyerhold Theatre: Visualising a Lost Architectural Experiment

Rachel Hann

27. Theatrical Biomechanics and Movement Science

Darren Tunstall

28. Biomechanics in Lockdown: Teaching Meyerhold in the age of COVID-19

Jonathan Pitches

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