ABSTRACT

Unprecedented in its comprehensiveness, The Moscow Art Theatre fills a large gap in our knowledge of Stanislavsky and his theatre. Worrall focuses in particular detail on four of The Moscow Art Theatre's best-known productions:
* Tolstoy's Tsar Fedor Ioannovich
* Gorky's The Lower Depths
* Chekov's The Cherry Orchard
* Turgenev's A Month in the Country

part |2 pages

Part I THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MOSCOW ART THEATRE

chapter 1|11 pages

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

chapter 2|7 pages

THE SOCIETY OF ART AND LITERATURE

chapter 3|16 pages

THE CREATION OF A NEW THEATRE

chapter 4|9 pages

THE HERMITAGE THEATRE ON CARRIAGE ROW

chapter 5|10 pages

ACTORS, SALARIES, CONDITIONS OF SERVICE

chapter 6|15 pages

SAVVA MOROZOV AND THE LIANOZOV THEATRE

part |2 pages

Part II THE MOSCOW ART THEATRE REPERTOIRE 1898–1917

chapter 16|5 pages

CONCLUSION