Vsevolod Meyerhold (Routledge Performance Practitioners) - Softcover

Pitches, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415258847 ISBN 13: 9780415258845

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

All books in the Routledge Performance Practitioners series are carefully designed to enable the reader to understand the work of a key practitioner. They provide the first step towards critical understanding and a springboard for further study for students on twentieth century, contemporary theatre and theatre history courses. This is the first book to combine

• a biographical introduction to Meyerhold's life
• a clear explanation of his theoretical writings
• an analysis of his masterpiece production 'Revisor, or The Government Inspector'
• a comprehensive and useable description of the 'biomechanical' exercises he developed for training the actor.

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Vsevolod Meyerhold This text combines: a biographical introduction to Meyerhold's life; a clear explanation of his theoretical writings; an analysis of his masterpiece production "Revisor, or The Government Inspector"; and a comprehensive and useable description of the "biomechanical" exercises he developed for training the actor. Full description

Synopsis

Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on 20th and 21st century performance.These compact, well-illustrated and clearly written books will unravel the contribution of modern theatre's most charismatic innovators, through: Personal biography Explanation of key writings Description of significant productions Reproduction of practical exercises As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today's student. This is the first book to combine a biographical introduction to Meyerhold's life a clear explanation of his theoretical writings an analysis of his masterpiece production 'Revisor, or The Government Inspector' a comprehensive and useable description of the 'biomechanical' exercises he developed for training the actor.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415258847
• ISBN 13: 9780415258845
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176