Author: Leo WienerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Contemporary Drama of Russia
Author: Leo WienerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
New Russian Drama
Author: Maksim HanukaiPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231545843
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
New Russian Drama took shape at the turn of the new millennium—a time of turbulent social change in Russia and the former Soviet republics. Emerging from small playwriting festivals, provincial theaters, and converted basements, it evolved into a major artistic movement that startled audiences with hypernaturalistic portrayals of sex and violence, daring use of non-normative language, and thrilling experiments with genre and form. The movement’s commitment to investigating contemporary reality helped revitalize Russian theater. It also provoked confrontations with traditionalists in society and places of power, making theater once again Russia’s most politicized art form. This anthology offers an introduction to New Russian Drama through plays that illustrate the versatility and global relevance of this exciting movement. Many of them address pressing social issues, such as ethnic tensions and political disillusionment; others engage with Russia’s rich cultural legacy by reimagining traditional genres and canons. Among them are a family drama about Anton Chekhov, a modern production play in which factory workers compose haiku, and a satirical verse play about the treatment of migrant workers, as well a documentary play about a terrorist school siege and a postdramatic “text” that is only two sentences long. Both politically and aesthetically uncompromising, they chart new paths for performance in the twenty-first century. Acquainting English-language readers with these vital works, New Russian Drama challenges us to reflect on the status and mission of the theater.
The Contemporary Drama of Russia
Author: Leo WienerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780598571595
Category : Russian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
CONTENTS Preface Origins A. N. Ostrovsky From Ostrovsky to Chekhov F. A. Korsh and the Drama The Slavophils and the Meiningen Players Chekhov before the Art Theatre The Moscow Art Theatre Chekhov and the Art Theatre Gorky as a Dramatist Meyerhold and the Theatre of Moods and Symbols The Kommissarshevskaya Theatre and Andreyev The Stylized Theatre Evreinov The Moscow Art Theatre after Chekhov The Peasant Theatre The Theatre under the Bolsheviks Biographical Appendix I. Authors and Plays II. Book List III. English Translations Index At the time of the original publication in 1924, Leo Wiener was Professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard University.
Contemporary Russian Drama
Author: Contemporary Russian Drama
Author: The Contemporary Drama of Russia
Author: Leo WienerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights
Author: Roman KozyrchikovPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350203793
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights is the first anthology of LGBTQ-themed plays written by Russian queer authors and straight allies in the 21st century. The book features plays by established and emergent playwrights of the Russian drama scene, including Roman Kozyrchikov, Andrey Rodionov and Ekaterina Troepolskaya, Valery Pecheykin, Natalya Milanteva, Olzhas Zhanaydarov, Vladimir Zaytsev, and Elizaveta Letter. Writing for children, teenagers, and adults, these authors explore gay, lesbian, trans, and other queer lives in prose and in verse. From a confession-style solo play to poetic satire on contemporary Russia; from a play for children to love dramas that have been staged for adult-only audiences in Moscow and other cities, this important anthology features work that was written around or after 2013-the year when the law on the prohibition of “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors” was passed by the Russian government. These plays are universal stories of humanity that spread a message of tolerance, acceptance, and love and make clear that a queer scenario does not necessarily have to end in a tragedy just because it was imagined and set in Russia. They show that breathing, growing old, falling in love, falling out of love, and falling in love again can be just as challenging and rewarding in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia as it can be in New York, Tokyo, Johannesburg, or Buenos Aires.
Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia
Author: E. Anthony SwiftPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520225945
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
"This is the fullest and most richly detailed study available of the popular theater that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift brings alive the world of Ostrovsky, Stanislavsky, Chekhov, and Tolstoy as he examines the origins and significance of the new 'people's theaters' that were created for the lower classes in St. Petersburg and Moscow between 1861 and 1917. His extensively researched study, full of anecdotes from the theater world of the day, shows how these people's theaters became a major arena in which the cultural contests of late imperial Russia were played out and how they contributed to the emergence of an urban consumer culture during this period of rapid social and political change."--Cover leaf.
Contemporary Russian Drama
Author: Franklin D. ReevePublisher:
ISBN: 9780672535215
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Modern Theatre in Russia
Author: Stefan AquilinaPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350066109
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
What did modern theatre in Russia look like and how did it foreground tradition building and transmission processes? The book challenges conventional historiographical approaches by weaving contemporary theories on cultural transmission into its historical narrative. It argues that processes of transmission – training spaces, acting manuals, photographic evidence, newspaper reports, international networking, informal encounters, cultural memories – contribute to the formation and consolidation of theatre traditions. Through English translations of rare Russian sources, the book expounds on: *side-lined material on Stanislavsky, including his relationship with German actor Ludwig Barnay, use of improvisation at the First Studio, and rehearsal practices for Artists and Admirers (1933); *Valentin Smyshlaev's acting manual The Technique to Process Stage Performance and the creation of hybrid practices; *proletarian theatre as an amateur-professional combination and force in the transformation of everyday life, as seen in the Proletkult's volume Art at the Workers' Clubs; *Meyerhold's Borodin Studio as an early example of Practice as Research, his European tour of 1930, and international persona as depicted in newspapers published in the West; and *Asja Lacis's work with children, which contributes to current efforts to address the gender imbalance that is often characteristic of modernism. This historical-theoretical investigation is combined with practical exercises that provide a more experiential understanding of the modern performance realities involved. In this way, the book speaks not only to theatre scholars and historians, but also to students and practitioners engaged in practical work.