ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold brings together a wealth of scholarship on one of the foremost innovators in European theatre. It presents a detailed picture of the Russian director’s work from when it first emerged on the modern stage to its multifarious present-day manifestations.
By combining an historical focus with the latest contemporary research from an international range of perspectives and authors, this collection marks an important moment in Meyerhold studies as well as offering a new assessment of his relation to today's theatre-making. Its dynamic blend of research is presented in five sections: Histories enlarges on more conventional subjects like the grotesque and Biomechanics, to overlooked topics such as Meyerhold's ‘failed’ projects and his work in film; Collaborations and Connections extends understandings of Meyerhold’s well-known collaborative capacities to consider new cultural influences and lesser known working relationships; Sources engages with hitherto untapped material in Meyerhold’s oeuvre by reproducing and contextualising previously untranslated primary sources on his work; Practitioner Voices offer lively, on the ground, testimony of the contemporary impact of Meyerhold's practice; Meyerhold in New Contexts maps the routes of his practice across continents and examines ways in which his work is being applied in a number of contemporary scenarios, such as motion capture, computer-based 3D visualisations, and the ‘new normal’ of digital pedagogy.
This is a key resource for students and scholars of European Theatre, acting theory, and actor training, as well as for those more broadly interested in the socio-political impact of theatre.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|103 pages
Histories
part II|93 pages
Collaborations and Connections
chapter 8|13 pages
An Unknown Legacy
chapter 11|15 pages
Towards Conscious and Independent Action
part III|89 pages
Sources
chapter 13|8 pages
The Commedia Dell'arte Origins of Biomechanics
section |32 pages
Part 2: Documents on Actor Training and Collective Creation at Borodinskaia
part IV|61 pages
Practitioner Voices
chapter 16|13 pages
The Evolution of Proper Job
chapter 17|11 pages
Biomechanical Diasporas
chapter 19|15 pages
Decoding the Riddle
part V|140 pages
Meyerhold in New Contexts
part V.1|71 pages
Transnational Migrations
part V.2|66 pages
Interdisciplinarities