Theatre in the Solovki Prison Camp

ISBN-13: 9783718654390 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 212 str.

Natalia Kuziakina;Natalia Kuziakina

Opis

There were theatres in many Soviet concentration camps. What were they like? Can we regard them as an artistic phenomenon? Do they constitute a distinct unity? It has been difficult to answer these and many other questions concerning the term "concentration camp theatre" mainly because the KGB archives are still largely inaccessible and few are still alive of those who worked in the theatres of the "world behind the barbed wire". The most important theatre of this kind, serving as a model for others, was in the Solovki camp for political prisoners. This account provides precise dates and names of the theatre managers, directors and actors.

Spis treści

Introduction to the Series; Preface; Part 1 Part One; Chapter 1 From monastery to concentration camp; Chapter 2 The Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp — SLON; Chapter 3 The special purpose press: The Solovetsky Islands and The New Solovki; Chapter 4 Profiles and masques; Part 2 Part Two; Chapter 5 The Theatre of the 1st DePart ment; Chapter 6 The smaller theatres — ‘Trash’ and the group of ‘Our Own’; Chapter 7 The end of the early Solovki; Chapter 8 At the crossroads; Chapter 9 The theatre at Kem; Part 3 Part Three; Chapter 10 The ‘court’ and ‘vulgar’ theatres of the White Sea-Baltic Canal; Chapter 11 Camp theatres and the Central Theatre of the White Sea-Baltic Canal; Chapter 12 The theatre of the late Solovki;

O autorze

Natalia Kuziakina