[Candrama] Online Book Launch: Modern Theatre in Russia

[Stefan Aquilina]

Dear colleague



You might be interested in attending an online book launch for my book *Modern
Theatre in Russia: Tradition Building and Transmission Processes*, which
came out recently on Bloomsbury. Details of the launch are as follows:



Date: 2 December

Time: 17:00 GMT



Registration:
https://universityofmalta.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hMF5KyywRbuWnP8dbK7sLg



The launch will be introduced by Dr Mario Frendo, Head of Theatre Studies
Department, School of Performing Arts, University of Malta. It will also
feature an intervention from Dr Claire Warden, Creative Arts, Loughborough
University, UK.



A short description of the book follows. More information on the
publication can be found here
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/modern-theatre-in-russia-9781350066106/>.



Stay well



Stefan



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*Book Description*



What did modern theatre in Russia look like and how did it foreground
tradition building and transmission processes?



The book challenges conventional historiographical approaches by weaving
contemporary theories on cultural transmission into its historical
narrative.  It argues that processes of transmission – training spaces,
acting manuals, photographic evidence, newspaper reports, international
networking, informal encounters, cultural memories – contribute to the
formation and consolidation of theatre traditions.



Through English translations of rare Russian sources, the book expounds on:

·         side-lined material on Stanislavsky, including his relationship
with German actor Ludwig Barnay, use of improvisation at the First Studio,
and rehearsal practices for *Artists and Admirers *(1933);

·         Valentin Smyshlaev’s acting manual *The Technique to Process
Stage Performance *and the creation of hybrid practices;

·         proletarian theatre as an amateur-professional combination and
force in the transformation of everyday life, as seen in the Proletkult’s
volume *Art at the Workers’ Clubs*;

·         Meyerhold’s Borodin Studio as an early example of Practice as
Research, his European tour of 1930, and international persona as depicted
in newspapers published in the West;

·         Asja Lācis’s work with children, which contributes to current
efforts to readdress the gender imbalance that is often characteristic of
modernism.



This historical-theoretical investigation is allied to practical exercises
that provide a more experiential understanding of the modern performance
realities involved. In this way, the book will not only speak to theatre
scholars and historians but also to students and practitioners engaged in
practical work.


Dr Stefan Aquilina <https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/stefanaquilina>
Director, School of Performing Arts <https://www.um.edu.mt/performingarts>
Senior Lecturer, Department of Theatre Studies
<https://www.um.edu.mt/performingarts/theatre>
University of Malta

Co-Director, Stanislavsky Research Centre
<https://stanislavsky-research.leeds.ac.uk/>
Director, CTATT Research Project <http://www.ctatt.org/>

Book Publications:
*Amateur and Proletarian Theatre in Post-Revolutionary Russia: Primary
Sources
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/amateur-and-proletarian-theatre-in-post-revolutionary-russia-9781350170971/>*
(forthcoming;
Bloomsbury)
*Modern Theatre in Russia: Tradition Building and Transmission Processes
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/modern-theatre-in-russia-9781350066106/> *(2020;
Bloomsbury)
*Interdisciplinarity in the Performing Arts: Contemporary Perspectives
<https://www.um.edu.mt/mup/onlinebookstore>*(2018; Malta University Press)
*Stanislavsky in the World: The System and its Transformations across
Continents
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/stanislavsky-in-the-world-9781472587886/>
*(2017;
Bloomsbury)

And:
'Teaching Stanislavsky: Periodization and the Formation of Theatre Canons'
<https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VGNPYBKQIFGT7WFPYIU5/full?target=10.1080%2F20567790.2020.1718862&fbclid=IwAR0Xc0Tty3MmdpAe8w3bDSMWryXU_D5Th849EGagicnN5dTUgV_3-8W8-5Q>,
in *Stanislavski Studies*
 'Cultural Transmission of Actor Training Techniques'
<https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/uhHcNSkG4YyrNfXcYeRC/full?target=10.1080%2F19443927.2018.1538018&fbclid=IwAR0pshmq_mwx1EMz8QYLA2dBLn2Sgn26HQiAaTce1e8ypHZwXZtbPfnaayg>,
in *Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (*Routledge), 10:1, pp. 4-20.
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