Table of Contents
List of Figures
Transliteration & Translation
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction
1 An Organisational History
2 What’s in a Name
3 Why Russia
4 Retracing the Name
The Prototype
5 The Skete
The Studio
6 From Study to Studio
7 The Studio in Visual Art: Cobra, a Collective Vitality
8 The Studio in Science: the Copenhagen Spirit
9 The Studio in Russian Theatre:
10 Creating a Commune: the First Studio’s Theatre-Obshchina
11 Oases of Curiosity: the Holidays of Slava Polunin
12 A New Camaraderie in Faith: the Theatre Art Studio
13 For the Sake of What: the Studio as Laboratory of Communion
The Masterskaya
14 From Workshop to Masterskaya
15 The Masterskaya in Visual Art: Rembrandt, the Master as Auteur
16 The Masterskaya in Science: Thomas Edison and the Contradictory Positions of his
Invention Factory
17 The Masterskaya in Russian Theatre:
18 The Visionary Authority of Vsevolod Meyerhold
19 I Need Them to Fear Me: Anatoli Vassiliev and the School of Dramatic Art
20 The Ecstasy of Togetherness: the Laboratory of Dmitry Krymov
21 For the Sake of What? The Masterskaya as Laboratory of Authority
Conclusion
22 The Value of a Theatre Laboratory