Yuri Lyubimov: Thirty Years at the Taganka Theatre

by B. Beumers

Overview

A study of Yury Lyubimov's tempestuous career and his style of theatre during his thirty years at the Taganka Theatre. This work traces the development of his ideas, from his arrival at the theatre in 1964 through to his explusion in 1984, and his period of exile in the West until his return in 1989 to a much-changed Russia. Tracing Lyubimov's work play by play, the book uncovers an individual doomed to be at odds with the prevailing political and social climate of his literary contemporaries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135304447
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/02/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	380
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

B. Beumers

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I Agitation in the 1960s: Society as a Generator of Change 1 The Development of a Poetic Theatre 2 1968 and After: the Crushing of a Repertoire Part II The Tragic Dimension of the 1970s: the Individual and Society 3 The Individual in the Present and in the Past 4 Individual and Artist in Crisis Part III The 1980s in the West 5 In Exile 6 Lyubimov at the Opera Part IV Musical Visions for the 1990s 7 The Return of the ªMasterº 8 Musical Harmony and the Doomed Individual

Editorial Reviews

"The most interesting thing in art is the unconscious process. Analysis starts later..."

"This well-researched and informed survey considers one of the great contemporary artistic marriages.... Beumers highlights the Taganka's metaphoric treatments of the individual's role in society and the theatre's responsibility to its audience, the humanistic tradition of great Russian literature, and the at-risk intelligentsia who created it....A valuable resource for those interested in theatre and in the intersection of arts and politics."

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