This essay focuses on Meyerhold’s early years of work – in itself a relatively sidelined area of investigation in the studies dedicated to him – to highlight the ways through which the opera director Savva Mamontov’s concepts, principles and theatrical practice were transmitted to young Meyerhold. The emphasis will be on Mamontovian method and practice of using material from the visual arts to create obraz or stage images. Particularly, the creation of obraz will be highlighted as a core theoretical and practical component of Meyerhold’s experiments in ‘conditional theatre’, a working method to further posit Mamontov as an early but key influence on Meyerhold’s growth as a theatre maker.
Gavrilovich, D. (2022). An Unknown Legacy: Uncovering Traces of Savva Mamontov’s work in Meyerhold’s Conditional Theatre. In Jonathan Pitches and Stefan Aquilina (a cura di), The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold (pp. 134-146). London : Routledge.
An Unknown Legacy: Uncovering Traces of Savva Mamontov’s work in Meyerhold’s Conditional Theatre
GAVRILOVICH
2022-11-01
Abstract
This essay focuses on Meyerhold’s early years of work – in itself a relatively sidelined area of investigation in the studies dedicated to him – to highlight the ways through which the opera director Savva Mamontov’s concepts, principles and theatrical practice were transmitted to young Meyerhold. The emphasis will be on Mamontovian method and practice of using material from the visual arts to create obraz or stage images. Particularly, the creation of obraz will be highlighted as a core theoretical and practical component of Meyerhold’s experiments in ‘conditional theatre’, a working method to further posit Mamontov as an early but key influence on Meyerhold’s growth as a theatre maker.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
