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  • © 1993

Theatre as Action

Soviet Russian Avant-Garde Aesthetics

Authors:

  1. Lars Kleberg
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Part of the book series: New Directions in Theatre (NDT)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  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

    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

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.
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