Meyerhold at Work

by Ilya Levin, Vern McGee, Paul Schmidt

Book Overview

"Not a mirror but a magnifying glass"-such, in the poet Mayakovsky's words, was the theater of Vsevolod Meyerhold. The first to insist on the primacy of the director's role, indeed the first to conceive of it as a role, this passionately dedicated Russian director tore down the fourth wall and forced the actors and audience together into one inescapable community of experience. Yet Meyerhold recorded few of his theories in writing, and the intensity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292750587
• ISBN13: 9780292750586
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.