The Modern Russian Theater: A Literary and Cultural History

A Literary and Cultural History

Nicholas Rzhevsky

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781317455745
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Macroeconomics
• Index: Economics

This comprehensive and original survey of Russian theater in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first encompasses the major productions of directors such as Meyerhold, Stanislavsky, Tovostonogov, Dodin, and Liubimov that drew from Russian and world literature. It is based on a close analysis of adaptations of literary works by Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Blok, Bulgakov, Sholokhov, Rasputin, Abramov, and many others."The Modern Russian Stage" is the result of more than two decades of research as well as the author's professional experience working with the Russian director Yuri Liubimov in Moscow and London. The book traces the transformation of literary works into the brilliant stagecraft that characterizes Russian theater. It uses the perspective of theater performances to engage all the important movements of modern Russian culture, including modernism, socialist realism, post-moderninsm, and the creative renaissance of the first decades since the Soviet regime's collapse.

INDEX

1. Ableukhov, Nikolai (Petersburg), 70–71
2. Ableukhov, Senator (Petersburg), 32, 70–71, 86
3. Abramov, Fedor, 124, 133–38, 143–44, 147–52, 155, 234, 256, 279–80, Wooden Horses, 135–38, 144, 147, 268, Pelageia, 135–37, 144, 279, Al’ka, 135, 137–38, 279, People of Kolkhoz Village in Postwar Prose, 143
4. Acmeists, 21, 33, 261
5. Adolescent, The (Dostoevsky), 234
6. Aduev, Petr, 153
7. Aesopean, 99, 118, 163, 227–28
8. Aesthetic discreditation, 76
9. Afinogenov, Aleksandr, 79, Fear 79
10. Agamirzian, Ruben, 178
11. Agapenov, 103
12. Agitprop, 54, 60
13. Aikhenvald, Yuly, 8, 10, 269
14. Aitmatov, Chingiz, 179, The Day Lasts More Than an Age, 179
15. Akhmatova, Anna, 59, 113, 115, 262–63, Poem Without a Hero, 262, Requiem, 262
16. Akimov, Nikolai, 72, 114
17. Akropolis (Wyspiański), xviii
18. Al’ka (Abramov), 135, 137–38, 279
19. Aldonza (Don Quixote), 111
20. Aleksandrinsky Theater, xv, 3, 27, 215, 223–24, 275
21. Aleksandrov, Aleksandr, 154
22. Alekseev, Mikhail, 139–40, 279
23. Aleksei Turbin (Days of the Turbins), 81, 83
24. Alesha (Brothers Karamazov), 40, 168–69, 186, 230, 233, 235
25. Aleshin, Samuil, 156, Alone 156
26. Alexander III, 88, 93
27. Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein), 76
28. Alexi-Meskhishvili, Georgi, 224
29. Alexis, Man of God, 19, 22–24,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Predispositions: The Theater of Literature
• I. Beginnings and Ends: 1900–1917
• II. Revolution and the Twenties
• III. Adapting to Socialist Realism
• IV. The Age of Red Aquarius
• V. The Past Regained
• VI. The Strange Horse
• VII. The End of Communism and the Survival of Theater
• VIII. The Nineties and Beyond: Ends and Beginnings
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author