ABSTRACT
This brief chapter looks at the next generation of directors who practiced and proselytized Analysis through Action. Members of this cohort – to our interests, Lev Dodin, Kama Ginkas, Anatoly Vasiliev, and Genrietta Yanovskaya – were born during World War II. They grew up during the Thaw and graduated from their theatre schools just as a conservative post-Thaw government, having deposed Khrushchev, created crippling economic stagnation and oversaw the arts with renewed vigilance. This new quartet had trouble advancing their careers not only because the theatres were economically strapped, but because they had a new artistic focal target: the role of individual in an authoritarian collective society.
