Revolutionary Theatre

by Robert Leach

Book Overview

Revolutionary Theatre is the first full-length study of the dynamic theatre created in Russia in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution. Fired by social and political as well as artistic zeal, a group of directors, playwrights, actors and organisers collected around the charismatic Vsevolod Meyerhold. Their aim was to achieve in the theatre what Lenin and his comrades had achieved in politics: the complete overthrow of the status quo and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415032237
• ISBN13: 9780415032230
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"