Word: meierhold
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...Meierhold Theatre held in store an experience even more extraordinary. Vsevolod Meierhold was in the original cast of The Sea Gull at the Moscow Art in 1898. He soon found that organization too "bourgeois," moved on to St. Petersburg among the intellectuals. After the 1917 Revolution his anarchistic technique, based on the premise that any means is justifiable in bringing audience and actor closer together, made him for five years the master of theatrical revels in shell-shocked Russia...
...comedy called The Magnificent Cuckold, Meierhold's radical method gets full play. The stage is completely bare except for some intricate scaffolding and necessary lighting effects. The actors all wear denim overalls. "The plot," says Observer Houghton. "is the old triangle situation, a man. his wife and her lover, given by Meierhold what they call in Russia social meaning.' This is apparently accomplished by the introduction of acrobatics . . . and all for a purpose. I can suggest this purpose by describing the entrance of the lover. . . . Meierhold places the lady at the foot of a tin slide, the lover...
...chiefly concerned with boosting Communism. It is. rather, a majestic piece of stagecraftsmanship which takes as its text the exploitation of helpless, sprawling China by a red-faced British Imperialism, aided and abetted by a sour-faced U. S. Protestantism. Roar China! was written for the famed Meierhold Theatre in Moscow by S. M. Tretyakov, poet, dramatist, photographer, co-editor of Lev (literary monthly...
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