Contemporary Russian Drama
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 312
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New Russian Drama
Author: Maksim Hanukai
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2019-08-06
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 0231545843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Russian Drama took shape at the turn of the new millennium—a time of turbulent social change in Russia and the former Soviet republics. Emerging from small playwriting festivals, provincial theaters, and converted basements, it evolved into a major artistic movement that startled audiences with hypernaturalistic portrayals of sex and violence, daring use of non-normative language, and thrilling experiments with genre and form. The movement’s commitment to investigating contemporary reality helped revitalize Russian theater. It also provoked confrontations with traditionalists in society and places of power, making theater once again Russia’s most politicized art form. This anthology offers an introduction to New Russian Drama through plays that illustrate the versatility and global relevance of this exciting movement. Many of them address pressing social issues, such as ethnic tensions and political disillusionment; others engage with Russia’s rich cultural legacy by reimagining traditional genres and canons. Among them are a family drama about Anton Chekhov, a modern production play in which factory workers compose haiku, and a satirical verse play about the treatment of migrant workers, as well a documentary play about a terrorist school siege and a postdramatic “text” that is only two sentences long. Both politically and aesthetically uncompromising, they chart new paths for performance in the twenty-first century. Acquainting English-language readers with these vital works, New Russian Drama challenges us to reflect on the status and mission of the theater.
The Contemporary Drama of Russia
Author: Leo Wiener
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights
Author: Roman Kozyrchikov
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-09-23
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1350203793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights is the first anthology of LGBTQ-themed plays written by Russian queer authors and straight allies in the 21st century. The book features plays by established and emergent playwrights of the Russian drama scene, including Roman Kozyrchikov, Andrey Rodionov and Ekaterina Troepolskaya, Valery Pecheykin, Natalya Milanteva, Olzhas Zhanaydarov, Vladimir Zaytsev, and Elizaveta Letter. Writing for children, teenagers, and adults, these authors explore gay, lesbian, trans, and other queer lives in prose and in verse. From a confession-style solo play to poetic satire on contemporary Russia; from a play for children to love dramas that have been staged for adult-only audiences in Moscow and other cities, this important anthology features work that was written around or after 2013-the year when the law on the prohibition of “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors” was passed by the Russian government. These plays are universal stories of humanity that spread a message of tolerance, acceptance, and love and make clear that a queer scenario does not necessarily have to end in a tragedy just because it was imagined and set in Russia. They show that breathing, growing old, falling in love, falling out of love, and falling in love again can be just as challenging and rewarding in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia as it can be in New York, Tokyo, Johannesburg, or Buenos Aires.
The Russian Theatre After Stalin
Author: Anatoly Smeliansky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-07-08
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521587945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to explore the world of the theatre in Russia after Stalin. Through his work at the Moscow Art Theatre, Anatoly Smeliansky is in a key position to analyse contemporary events on the Russian stage and he combines this first-hand knowledge with valuable archival material, some published here for the first time, to tell a fascinating and important story. Smeliansky chronicles developments from 1953 and the rise of a new Soviet theatre, and moves through the next four decades, highlighting the social and political events which shaped Russian drama and performance. The book also focuses on major directors and practitioners, including Yury Lyubimov, Oleg Yefremov, and Lev Dodin, among others, and contains a chronology, glossary of names, and informative illustrations.
A History of Russian Theatre
Author: Robert Leach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-11-29
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780521432207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive history of Russian theatre, written by an international team of experts.
Performing Violence
Author: Birgit Beumers
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781841502694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe so-called "New Russian Drama" emerged at the end of the twentieth century, following a long period of decline in dramatic writing in the late Soviet and post-Soviet era. In Performing Violence, Birgit Beumers and Mark Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works by young Russian playwrights. Reflecting the disappointment in Yeltsin's democratic reforms and Putin's neoconservative politics, the plays focus on political and social representations of violence, its performances, and its justifications. As the first English-language study of Russian drama and theatre in the twenty-first century, Performing Violence seeks a vantage point for the analysis of brutality in post-Soviet culture. While previous generations had preferred poetry and prose, this new breed of authors--the Presnyakov brothers, Evgeni Grishkovets, and Vasili Sigarev among them--have garnered international recognition for their fierce plays. This book investigates the violent portrayal of the identity crisis of a generation as represented in their theatrical works, and will be a key text for students and scholars of drama, Russian studies, and literature.
The Contemporary Drama of Russia
Author: Leo Wiener
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCONTENTS Preface Origins A. N. Ostrovsky From Ostrovsky to Chekhov F. A. Korsh and the Drama The Slavophils and the Meiningen Players Chekhov before the Art Theatre The Moscow Art Theatre Chekhov and the Art Theatre Gorky as a Dramatist Meyerhold and the Theatre of Moods and Symbols The Kommissarshevskaya Theatre and Andreyev The Stylized Theatre Evreinov The Moscow Art Theatre after Chekhov The Peasant Theatre The Theatre under the Bolsheviks Biographical Appendix I. Authors and Plays II. Book List III. English Translations Index At the time of the original publication in 1924, Leo Wiener was Professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard University.
New Drama in Russian
Author: J.A.E. Curtis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-05-14
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1350142484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow and why does the stage, and those who perform upon it, play such a significant role in the social makeup of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus? In New Drama in Russian, Julie Curtis brings together an international team of leading scholars and practitioners to tackle this complex question. New Drama, which draws heavily on techniques of documentary and verbatim writing, is a key means of protest in the Russian-speaking world; since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, theatres, dramatists, and critics have collaborated in using the genre as a lens through which to explore a wide range of topics from human rights and state oppression to sexuality and racism. Yet surprisingly little has been written on this important theatrical movement. New Drama in Russian rectifies this. Through providing analytical surveys of this outspoken transnational genre alongside case-studies of plays and interviews with playwrights, this volume sheds much-needed light on the key issues of performance, politics, and protest in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Meticulously researched and elegantly argued, this book will be of immense value to scholars of Russian cultural history and post-Soviet literary studies.
Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre
Author: Laurence Senelick
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-08-13
Total Pages: 693
ISBN-13: 1442249277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA latecomer continually hampered by government control and interference, the Russian theatre seems an unlikely source of innovation and creativity. Yet, by the middle of the nineteenth century, it had given rise to a number of outstanding playwrights and actors, and by the start of the twentieth century, it was in the vanguard of progressive thinking in the realms of directing and design. Its influence throughout the world was pervasive: Nikolai Gogol', Anton Chekhov and Maksim Gor'kii remain staples of repertories in every language, the ideas of Konstantin Stanislavskii, Vsevolod Meierkhol'd and Mikhail Chekhov continue to inspire actors and directors, while designers still draw on the graphics of the World of Art group and the Constructivists. What distinguishes Russian theater from almost any other is the way in which these achievements evolved and survived in ongoing conflict or cooperation with the State. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre covers the history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on individual actors, directors, designers, entrepreneurs, plays, playhouses and institutions, Censorship, Children’s Theater, Émigré Theater, and Shakespeare in Russia. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russian Theatre.
