Theatre as Action

Soviet Russian Avant-Garde Aesthetics

  • Authors
  • Lars Kleberg
Book

Part of the New Directions in Theatre book series (NDT)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xi
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  2. Avant-Garde Art and the Project of Cultural Revolution

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Iconoclasm and Festival
      Lars Kleberg
      Pages 2-7
    3. The Project of Cultural Revolution
      Lars Kleberg
      Pages 8-26
    4. Down with the Fetishes!
      Lars Kleberg
      Pages 27-35

  3. Theatre as Action

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 37-37
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    2. Theatre as Example
      Lars Kleberg
      Pages 38-39
    3. The Semiotics of Theatre
      Lars Kleberg
      Pages 40-49
    4. Stage and Auditorium in the Russian Modernist Theatre
      Lars Kleberg
      Pages 50-64
    5. Theatre Constructivism
      Lars Kleberg
      Pages 65-76
    6. The Theatre of Attractions
      Lars Kleberg
      Pages 77-92
    7. The Audience as Myth and Reality
      Lars Kleberg
      Pages 93-102
    8. The Theatre as an Arena for Discussion
      Lars Kleberg
      Pages 103-113
    9. The Provisional Abdication of Total Theatre
      Lars Kleberg
      Pages 114-119
    10. Postscript: the Avant-Garde and History
      Lars Kleberg
      Pages 120-126
  4. Back Matter
    Pages 127-152
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About this book

Introduction

Russian and Soviet avant-garde theatre attempted to create a new art for post-revolutionary, post-1917 Russian and Soviet society. But what were the assumptions made of the audience and by the audience and was there a gap between the two? This original book studies the confrontation of the ideal with the reality of the Soviet 1920s, revealing the Wagnerian and Symbolist utopia beneath, and its crisis.

Keywords

aesthetics constructivism festival stage theatre

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