Moscow Theatres for Young People: A Cultural History of Ideological Coercion and Artistic Innovation, 1917-2000 / / by Manon van de Water

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970480603321
• Autore: Water Manon van de
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006
• ISBN: 9786611366056; 9781281366054; 1281366056; 9781403984692; 1403984697
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XVIII, 302 p. 12 illus.)
• Collana: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Disciplina: 792/.0947/31
• Soggetti: Theater-History; Theater; Russia-History; Europe, Eastern-History; Civilization-History; Theatre History; Theatre and Performance Studies; Russian, Soviet, and East European History; Cultural History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-292) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Moscow Theatres for Young People: A Cultural History of Ideological Coercion and Artistic Innovation, 1917-2000 -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Transliteration -- Selected Glossary of Terms -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I The Soviet Period -- 1 From Marxism-Leninism to Perestroika and Glasnost -- 2 The Historical Role and Cultural Function of Russian Theatre for Young Audiences -- 3 Thaw and Freeze -- II Perestroika and Glasnost -- 4 The Change in Cultural Function with Glasnost and Perestroika -- ; 5 Central Children's Theatre -- 6 The Moscow Theatre of the Young Spectator -- III A New Millenium -- 7 Cultural Shifts and Theatrical Innovation -- 8 Shaking the Past: The Russian Academic Youth Theatre -- 9 Provoking Assumptions: Kama Ginkas at the Mtiuz -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book shows how the totalitarian ideology of the Soviet period shaped the practices of Soviet theatre for youth. It weaves together politics, pedagogy and aesthetics to reveal the complex intersections between theatre and its socio-historical conditions. It paints a picture of the theatrical developments from 1917 through to the new millennium.