Theatre as Action: Soviet Russian Avant-Garde Aesthetics

This volume offers a new typology of the stage/audience relationship in modernist Russian theatre. It studies the confrontation of the ideal with the reality of the Soviet 1920s, revealing the Wagnerian and symbolist utopia beneath and its crisis. The constructivism of the 1920s is considered in the light of the plays of Meterhold, Eisenstein and Tretyakov, and Kleberg also comments on the relation of the Soviet avant-garde Brecht’s aesthetics.