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Vsevolod Meyerhold

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Vsevolod Meyerhold , 1874-1940?, Russian theatrical director and producer. Meyerhold led the revolt against naturalism in the Russian theater. Working with the Moscow Art Theatre, he experimented with his own directing ideas until the outbreak of the Revolution. Meyerhold was a member of the Bolshevik party, and as head of theatrical activities for the state he directed the first theater to specialize in Soviet plays. He was among the earliest advocates of the theater of the absurd. In his avant-garde productions he employed various grotesque elements, pantomimes, and acrobatics, emphasizing the... Read more
Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold
Encyclopedia of World Biography Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold The Russian director Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold (1874-1940/42) is noted for his stylistic ... performances in constructivist settings. Vsevolod Meyerhold was born to German parents on Jan. 28 ... Read more
Vsevolod (Yemilyevich) Meyerhold
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ... critics for his artistic individuality and opposition to Socialist Realism , he was arrested and imprisoned in 1939 and was probably executed. Vsevolod (Yemilyevich) Meyerhold Vsevolod (Yemilyevich) Meyerhold Vsevolod (Yemilyevich) Meyerhold Read more

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Konstantin Stanislavsky/Vsevolod Meyerhold
Australasian Drama Studies; 4/1/2005; Fewster, Russell; 2501 words ; ... Routledge, 2003) Jonathon Pitches, Vsevolod Meyerhold (London: Routledge, 2003) These ... Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold. These studies are two of four ... the famed Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold. The author's pedagogical background ... Read more
Studio's 'Meyerhold': Fun for the Whole Proletariat
The Washington Post; 1/25/2005; Nelson Pressley; 866 words ; Mark Jackson's "The Death of Meyerhold" is a play on the march ... pioneering theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold, and part biography of the ... flaming young actor-director Meyerhold shatter the fourth wall en ... but agreeably freewheeling "Meyerhold" is perfectly placed, and ... Read more
THEATRE: As free as a bird He was executed under Stalin and declared a `non-person', which is why almost no one recognises the name Meyerhold. Now Scarlet Theatre's Seagulls welcomes back one of theatre's most neglected figures.
The Independent - London; 10/20/1999; Dominic Cavendish; 1085 words ; ... kind, the Russian director Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold. Although Brook is not alone ... to have trouble recognising Meyerhold's name, let alone his genius ... during rehearsals at the State Meyerhold Theatre in Moscow on 8 January ... Read more
Enemies: a Russian love story; Meyerhold and Stanislavsky, the two opposing titans of Russian theatre, are the seeds for renewal and reawakening in today's Moscow.(Special Section: Approaches to Theatre Training 2004)(Konstantin Stanislavsky, V.E. Meierhold)
American Theatre; 1/1/2004; Sacharow, Lawrence; 4010 words ; ... artistic director of the new Meyerhold Center. I eagerly anticipated ... Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold that had been uncovered since ... the confiscated writings of Meyerhold. He finally succeeded and ... erased from Russian life when Meyerhold was assassinated by Stalin ... Read more
Meyerhold's Theatrical Opening, THE MOSCOW TIMES
The Moscow Times (Russia); 4/24/2001; Robin Munro; 799 words ; ... first good look at the new Meyerhold Center on Novoslobodskaya ... after theatrical director Vsevolod Meyerhold, who led a revolt in the ... Fokin is determined to follow Meyerhold's vision, and wants to create ... bookshop. "We really hope the Meyerhold Center can be the place where ... Read more
THE FALL AND RISE OF MEYER HOLO.
American Theatre; 1/1/2000; CHAMBERS, DAVID PESOCHINSKY, NIKOLAI; 4619 words ; ... National Television news piece on Revizor ran ... further possibilities for Meyerhold-based training. The ... formalist avant-garde. Meyerhold proposes a modernist ... performance technique. Meyerhold's insistence that all ... content hidden within Meyerhold's theatre games was ... for the messages ... Read more
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World Literature Today; 9/22/1994; Meierkhol'd, Vsevolod Emilievich Sitkovetskaia, M.M.; 1009 words ; ... influential Russian theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940), a victim of Stalinism ... despite the preservation of Meyerhold materials at the recently renamed ... Now, in Meierkhol'd repetiruet (Meyerhold Rehearses), the TsIGALI archivist ... Read more
Stunning production; Politics and art make an absorbing drama
Pacific Sun; 1/20/2004; Anonymous; 747 words ; ... times," is how play-wright Mark Jackson describes Vsevolod Meyerhold; and this may be the boldest understatement in ... Cassidy Brown plays revolutionary stage director Vsevolod Meyerhold; Beth Wilmurt plays Maria Babanova.) Read more
'Godunov' rises from Stalin's Terror
International Herald Tribune; 4/11/2007; Patricia Cohen; 1219 words ; ... the visionary stage director Vsevolod Meyerhold mapped out scenes and started ... Stalin's Terror fixed its gaze on Meyerhold and he abandoned the project ... thanks to the recent discovery of Meyerhold's original notes and Prokofiev ... Read more
Obituary: Tamara Ivanova
The Independent - London; 4/28/1995; 541 words ; ... dissolved), 1932 Vsevolod Ivanov (died ... Maxim Gorky, Vsevolod Meyerhold and Isaak Babel ... theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold, she met Gorky ... in several of Meyerhold's productions ... future husband Vsevolod Ivanov, when ... Read more

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