Meyerhold on Theatre brings together in one volume Vsevolod Meyerhold's most significant writings and utterances, and covers his entire career as a director from 1902 to 1939. It contains a comprehensive selection from all published material, unabridged and translated from the original Russian, updated and supplemented with a critical commentary relating Meyerhold to his period and eye-witness accounts describing all his productions. The book is illustrated with photographs of Meyerhold's designs and productions.Within this diverse collection of sometimes dense, sometimes lyrical, and always fascinating writings, Meyerhold emerges from this book as a forerunner of such directors as Brecht, Piscator, Planchon and Brook, a relentless enemy of naturalism and a supreme exponent of total theatre whose influence continues to be felt throughout the theatre of today.This fourth edition features a new introduction by Prof. Jonathan Pitches, which helps to demystify some of the terminology Meyerhold and his associates used, and indicates the fundamental connection between culture and politics represented in his life and art

"La mia vita nell’arte" del grande attore e regista russo Konstantin Stanislavskij è il più appassionante libro sul teatro del Novecento. L’esperienza di Stanislavskij coincide infatti con la grande stagione del Teatro dell’Arte di Mosca, uno dei maggiori centri mondiali del rinnovamento teatrale del secolo scorso, dove nacque la critica al modo enfatico e convenzionale del recitare. La celebre autobiografia di Stanislavskij offre un appassionante racconto diviso in quattro parti: infanzia artistica, adolescenza artistica, giovinezza artistica e maturità artistica. Quattro fasi segnate da una costante ricerca sul lavoro dell’attore e sui linguaggi teatrali, ma anche collocate in contesti storici cruciali: la Russia zarista, la rivolta del 1905, i luoghi dell’esilio e la Rivoluzione del 1917.