Valery Zolotukhin Rally Shows and Mass Shows in Soviet and American Theater

DESCRIPTION

Hear a lecture on experiments in early Soviet and American theater.

This lecture will focus on early Soviet theater, and in particular on the experiments of Vsevolod Meyerhold, Nikolai Evreinov, Adrian Piotrovsky, and their peers, who developed a new form of theater: rally shows. Their works will be discussed in conjunction with American theater of the 1960s and the question of relations between theater and performance.

ABOUT THE LECTURE

Valery Zolotukhin (PhD in art theory) is a lecturer at the Russian State University for the Humanities and Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, and the author of many publications on declamation and the history of Russian and Soviet theater in the 20th century.