List of illustrations; Preface; 1. A life; 2. The fourth dimension; 3. The actor's business; 4. The mise-en-scène; 5. Rhythm; 6. Meanings; 7. Masquerade; 8. Meyerhold and Mayakovsky; 9. The legacy; Chronology; List of Meyerhold's productions; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
A study of the career of the Russian revolutionary theatre director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, from his early years to his glittering triumphs in the Tsarist imperial theatres.
'Robert Leach's monograph provides lucid and essential insight into the magnificent modernist Vsevolod Meyerhold ... a valuable and illuminating book.' Plays and Players 'Few Meyerhold scholars have contributed as lucid and insightful an understanding of Meyerhold's theories as Leach manages ... Vsevolod Meyerhold is a cogently written overview of a fascinating theatrical era.' Theatre Three
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