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In the first English-language collection to examine twenty-first-century Russian theater, this special issue of Theater ... includes the complete texts of two new Russian plays, published for the first time in English. Ivan Vyrypaev’s Oxygen is a poetic panorama of new Russian identity set to techno music, and Danila Privalov’s 5-25 explores traditional Dostoyevskian existential themes in the language of a new generation. One contributor chronicles the sweeping cultural and institutional changes in the Russian theater since 2000, while another provides an overview of the regional theater system in the world’s most geographically vast country. Another essay explores the development of the new playwriting movement, identifying its key writers and producers. This special issue also includes interviews with the movement’s directors and producers. Additionally, it contains letters, previously unpublished in English, from the Moscow Art Theater’s Olga Bokshanskaya to the Russian theatrical titan Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, reporting on the Moscow Art Theater’s legendary U.S. tour in 1920–22, which was recorded in theater history as a turning point for American acting.
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Conceived in 1897 by dramatist Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko and Stanislavsky, the Moscow Art Theater began as an artistic and commercial venture to lift the status of Russian theater and acting. The two theatrical idealists saw themselves as “knights of culture” in promoting new literary and political ideas then current in western Europe. For them, the company was to be a vehicle of pure art and ethical responsibility, and the dramatic creations it staged would not be dependent on the frivolous tastes of theatergoers.
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Modern theater owes a great debt to Russian playwrights and directors like Chekhov, Meyerhold, Stanislavsky. The startpoint of an exploration of Russian theaters is the Russian theaters website. Or you may prefer to jump right in and begin your exploration of that debt at the place where it began, Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theater (MKhAT), where you will find a history of this exciting theatrical experience. Konstantin Stanislavsky's 'Method' acting techniques, which he developed for MKhAT, form the foundation of all contemporary acting schools.
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At the end of the 19th century Konstantin Stanislavsky founded the Moscow Art Theater, where Russian theater art came of age. Realistic plays produced here, among them the works of Anton Chekhov and Maksim Gorki, stimulated the modern “method” school of acting (see Acting).
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