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1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
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First edition
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9781350171008
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9781350170988
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"This is the first collection of primary sources that addresses the amateur theatre produced by the workers in the first decade after the Russian Revolution. Newly translated from the Russian, the essays capture both theoretical articulations on the scene -- by luminaries such as Alexander Bogdanov, Platon Kerzhentsev, Valerian Pletnev, Alexander Mgebrov and Valentin Smyshliaev -- and the more fleeting descriptions and first-hand accounts of the productions staged, accounts and voices which are typically harder to capture. The essays tell a story of unabashed optimism in the creativity of the working classes. They speak of the use of theatre to carve a public and political role in the construction of a new world. The sources, however, also exhibit the flipside of the scene, or the sombre difficulties faced by the amateur actors and the incessant calls to raise standards through professional help. The narrative developed is that of an amateur theatre which began as an autonomous and heterogeneous activity but which by the mid-to-late 1920s was transformed into a regulated practice and a space for cultural programming. The collection makes an important contribution to our understanding of modern theatre: scholarship conventionally tackles the canonical names from the professional world but gives little attention to the more down-to-earth forms of performance taking place in factories, clubs and amateur circles. An introductory essay also highlights the range and significance of the collection and draws links between the essays."--
Note:
Translated from the original Russian into English
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Part 1. Aims and objectives. 1. 'The Proletariat and art', 1918 / Anatoly Lunacharsky Proletarskaia kul'tura , no. 2, pp. 23-24 ; 2. 'The Proletariat and art', 1918 Resolutions proposed at the first all-Russian Conference of Proletarian Cultural and Educational Organizations / Alexander Bogdanov Proletarskaia kul'tura , no. 5, page unidentified ; 3. 'The Proletkult and Soviet cultural work', 1919 ; Anatoly Lunacharsky Proletarskaia kul'tura , no. 7-8, pp. 1-3 ; 4. 'Ways towards a Proletarian culture', 1920 / Alexander Bogdanov Proletarskaia kul'tura , no. 15-16 ; 5. 'The Proletkult -- organisation of Proletarian amateur performance', 1918 / Platon Kerzhentsev Proletarskaia kul'tura , no. 1, pp. 7-8 ; 6. 'Craving the stage', 1919 / Nikolai Lvov Vestnik teatra , 56, p. 8 ; 7. 'Socialist theatre in the years of the revolution', 1919 / Piotr Kogan Vestnik teatra , 40, pp. 3-4 ; 8. 'No to theatre art, but to celebration', 1921 / Adrian Piotrovsky Zhizn ' iskusstva, 19-22 March, 1921, page unidentified ; 9. 'Drama and mass performances', 1921 / Viktor Shklovsky Zhizn ' iskusstva , 9-11 March, 1921, page unidentified -- Part 2. Amateur-professional relations 10. 'On the professionalization of the workers in the arts', 1919 / Fyodor Kalinin Proletarskaia kul'tura , no. 7-8, pp. 29-31 ; 11. 'On professionalism', 1919 / Valerian Pletnev Proletarskaia kul'tura , no. 7-8, pp. 31-37 ; 12. The creation of the Proletarian theatre, 1923 / Platon Kerzhentsev An extract from Tvorcheskii teatr , pp. 75--- 88 Part 3 Repertoire issues. 13. Repertoire at a factory theatre, [1918] / Alexander Mgebrov An extract from Zhizn' v teatre tom 2, pp. 302-06 ; 14. 'The repertoire of the Proletarian theatre', 1918 / Platon Kerzhentsev Iskusstvo , no. 1 (5), pp. 5-7 ; 15. Notes on Pavel Bessalko's The bricklayer, [1918] / Alexander Mgebrov An extract from Zhizn' v teatre tom 2 , pp. 420-33 ; 16. 'Adapt the plays!', 1919 / Platon Kerzhentsev Vestnik teatra , no. 36, pp. 6-8 ; 17. Garland's inheritance , 1923 / Valerian Pletnev An extract from the play, Act 1, pp. 5-17 ; 18. They tried to hide, but ended up fathers, 1924 / Arkhip Rabochii klub , no. 5, pp. 34-37 -- Part 4. Production approaches and examples. 19. 'After the holiday', 1918 / Platon Kerzhentsev Iskusstvo , no. 6, pp. 3-5 ; 20. Performances during the Civil War, [1919] / Alexander Mgebrov An extract from Zhizn' v teatre tom 2, pp. 365-71 ; 21. Collective readings, [1918-19] / Alexander Mgebrov An extract from Zhizn' v teatre tom 2 ; 22. 'Collective creation in the theatre', 1919 / Platon Kerzhentsev Proletarskaia kul'tura , no. 7-8, pp. 37-41. ; 23. 'Strife between the arts', 1919 / Platon Kerzhentsev Vestnik teatra , no. 19, p. 2. ; 24. 'On futurism', 1919 / Fyodor Kalinin Proletarskaia kul'tura ,no. 7-8, pp. 41-3 ; 25. 'Creative play. The improvisation method of N. Skarskaia', 1919 / Pavel Gaideburov VO, no. 6-8, pp. 36-40 ; 26. 'Experiment in the staging of Émile Verhaeren's Poem insurrection ', 1919 / Valentin Smyshlaev Gorn , no. 2-3, pp. 82-90 ; 27. The results of the new theatre, 1923 / Platon Kerzhentsev An extract from Tvorcheskii teatr , pp. 123-36 ; 28. The Proletarian actor, 1922 / Valentin Tikhonovich An extract from the essay 'Proletarian Theatre', originally published in O Teatre, a book edited by V. Blum, E. Beskin, B. Ferdinand, A. Gan, I. Aksenov, V. Tikhonovich, M. Zagorsky, B. Arvatov, O. Blum, V. Rappaport, L. Sabaneyev, O Teatre, pp. 89-96 ; 29. 'The dramatisation of a living newspaper', 1924 / Moscow Proletkult An essay from the volume Iskusstvo v rabochem klube , pp. 66-71 ; 30. 'On staging agit-trials', 1924 / Moscow Proletkult An essay from the volume Iskusstvo v rabochem klube , pp. 96-99 ; 31. 'Club stage -- Competition of living newspapers', 1927 / N.N.V Rabochii i teatr , no. 15, pp. 16-17 -- Part 5. Training. 32. 'On the work of the theatre department of the Moscow Proletkult', 1918 / Valentin Smyshlaev Gorn , no. 1, p. 54 ; 33. Dramatic laboratories, 1923 / Platon Kerzhentsev An extract from Tvorcheskii teatr , pp. 88-94 ; 34. 'A unified studio of the arts', 1924 / Moscow Proletkult An essay from the volume Iskusstvo v rabochem klube , pp. 9-16 ; 35. 'On theatre work at the clubs', 1924 / Moscow Proletkult An essay from the volume Iskusstvo v rabochem klube , pp. 17-24 -- Epilogue. Sections from N. Evreinov's intervention during the conference on theatre organised by the Agitprop Division of the Communist Party, 1927.
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ISBN 9781350228832
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350170971
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Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350171008
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