Vsevolod Meyerhold

by Jonathan Pitches

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

Genres: Theatre

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Denislav Yanev · Rating 5 out of 5]

Russian visionary theatre director V. Meyerhold has been an inspiration for my stage work for some time now and one cannot imagine the pleasure I experienced reading prof. Pitches'remarkable book about his creative processes.

This detailed insight into the personal, philosophical and highly theatrical world of Meyerhold gives you a chance to sense and see the Dream Theatre he was trying to do, the problems he faced and the training aims he set out for his actors. The guiding principles of Meyerhold's approach like expressive physical style of acting, sense of composition, mixing of opposites, rhythm and etc. still sound contemporary and provoke the reader's imagination to go beyond the stereotypical understanding of staging a play.

Prof. Pitches reminds us the importance of Meyerhold's biomechanic training as being something fundamental, and not mere choice, for every good actor (and director).

[Ali · Rating 4 out of 5]

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