Stanislavsky and Meyerhold - Stage & Screen Studies - Robert Leach - Books - Verlag Peter Lang - 9783906769790 - February 26, 2003
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Stanislavsky and Meyerhold - Stage & Screen Studies

Robert Leach

Stanislavsky and Meyerhold - Stage & Screen Studies

This book traces the parallel careers of the two greatest twentieth-century theatre practitioners, the Russian masters Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold. It is particularly concerned with the simultaneous development of their two contradictory - but perhaps also complementary - acting methods, methods which dominate the best acting practice today. From the same starting point at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898, Stanislavsky and Meyerhold pursued very different artistic paths through the turbulent last years of tsarism, and the increasingly tormented first decades of communism. Yet by the late 1930s, almost unnoticed, they had begun to work together again. However, their fates under Stalin?s tyranny were diametrically opposite: while Stanislavsky was virtually deified by the state, Meyerhold was vilified, tortured and executed. This is a unique story of artistic struggle, as well as of personal jealousy and affection, and it illuminates the methods and potential of contemporary acting practice.


255 pages, facsimiles, Bibliography, index

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 26, 2003
ISBN13 9783906769790
Publishers Verlag Peter Lang
Pages 255
Dimensions 225 × 153 × 16 mm   ·   378 g
Language English   German  

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