Theatre as action : Soviet Russian avant-garde aesthetics

Author(s)

• Kleberg, Lars

Bibliographic Information

Theatre as action : Soviet Russian avant-garde aesthetics

Lars Kleberg ; translated from Swedish by Charles Rougle

（New directions in theatre）

Macmillan Press, 1993

Other Title

Teatern som handling

Note

Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted

Thesis--Stockholm

Summary in English

Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-187) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

After the 1917 revolution, Russian and Soviet avant-garde theatre attempted to create a new art for post-revolutionary society. This reconsideration of the Russian avant-garde theatre investigates the burgeoning new drama/theatre forms of the period. Kleberg considers assumptions made about the audience and by the audience, and seeks to determine whether discrepancies existed between the two. Offering fresh insights into the modernist period of Russian theatre, Theatre as Action provides a new typology of the stage/audience relationship in modernist Russian theatre. Constructivism of the 1920's is discussed on light of the plays of Meyerhold, Eisenstein, and Treytykov. The relation of the Soviet Russian avant-garde to the aesthetics of Bertold Brecht is also examined. This original, comprehensive work is a major contribution to our understanding of the confrontation of the ideal and the reality of Soviet 1920's, revealing the Wagnerian and Symbolist utopia beneath, and its crisis. It will be of particular interest to students of literature and drama.

Table of Contents

• Avant-garde and the project of cultural revolution: iconoclasm and festival
• the project of cultural revolution
• down with fetishes!
• theatre as example
• the semiotics of theatre
• stage and auditorium in the Russian modernist theatre
• theatre constructivism
• the theatre of attractions
• the audience as myth and reality
• the theatre as an arena for discussion
• the provisional abdication of total theatre
• postscript 1991 - the avant-garde and history.

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Details

• NCID: BA28505787
• ISBN:
  • 0333566947
• LCCN: 95184875
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: swe
• Place of Publication: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
• Pages/Volumes: 152 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : NX556.A1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Arts, Russian
  • LCSH : Arts and revolutions -- Russia (Federation)
  • LCSH : Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Russia (Federation)
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA28505878