An imaginative tour de force, Starfall consists of three dramatic dialogues among real people in imagined settings. In "The Aquarians," Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein--whose artistic theories run throughout the book--argues about art with Bertolt Brecht on the Moscow-to-Berlin train in 1932. "The Sorcerer's Apprentices" takes place at a 1935 performance given by Chinese actor Mei Lan-Fang and his troupe, the prime representatives of the time's "classical" Chinese theater. Speeches by Eisenstein contrasts the Russian theater with that of the Chinese and other Europeans. "Ash...
An imaginative tour de force, Starfall consists of three dramatic dialogues among real people in imagined settings. In "The Aquarians," Russian...
After the 1917 revolution, Russian and Soviet avant-garde theatre attempted to create a new art for post-revolutionary society. This reconsideration of the Russian avant-garde theatre investigates the burgeoning new drama/theatre forms of the period. Kleberg considers assumptions made about the audience and by the audience, and seeks to determine whether discrepancies existed between the two. Offering fresh insights into the modernist period of Russian theatre, Theatre as Action provides a new typology of the stage/audience relationship in modernist Russian theatre. Constructivism of the...
After the 1917 revolution, Russian and Soviet avant-garde theatre attempted to create a new art for post-revolutionary society. This reconsideratio...
