Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko and the Moscow Art Theatre

Inna Solovyova, James Thomas

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Routledge
11 March 2025

Performance art; Acting techniques

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

This is an authorized translation of Nemirovich-Danchenko (Moscow, 1979) by Inna Solovyova, historian, author, and senior researcher of the Moscow Art Theatre Archives.

Untranslated before now, it is the only comprehensive account of the life and work of Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858–1943), co-founder with Konstantin Stanislavsky of the Moscow Art Theatre and one of the pioneers of the art of directing. Nemirovich-Danchenko was one of the few prominent theatre practitioners who lived and worked from Russia’s Tsarist period through the inception and consolidation of its Soviet period. Thus, it is also a story about the development of Russian society and culture during the last half of the nineteenth century and the Soviet half of the twentieth century. Additionally, it explores the Moscow Art Theatre’s interpretive and production work on the plays of Chekhov, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, and many others. The central theme of the book focuses on the contingent dialectical relationship between artists and their changing socio-political realities.

The author’s narrative is stylistically informal and based on archival documents, most of which are referenced here for the first time in English and will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies.

By: Inna Solovyova
Translated by: James Thomas
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 660g
ISBN: 9781032781136
ISBN 10: 1032781130
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 11 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Translator’s Preface Chapter 1: The Long Beginning 1858~1886 Chapter 2: Everything is Nearby 1886~1896 Chapter 3: Opening 1896~1899 Chapter 4: In the Theatre from Ten to Seven 1899~1904 Chapter 5: First Farewells 1904~1905 Chapter 6: Returning to a New Place 1905~1906 Chapter 7: At Home 1906~1909 Chapter 8: Russian Tragedy 1908~1910 Chapter 9: Options for an Ending 1910~1914 Chapter 10: Fifth and Sixth Life 1914~1919 Chapter 11: Chapter from Another Book 1919~1943 (The Soviet Years)

Inna Solovyova (1937–2024) was one of Russia’s most prominent theatre historians and critics with expertise in the history of the Moscow Art Theatre. James Thomas is a Professor in the Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance in the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts at Wayne State University.

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Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko and the Moscow Art Theatre

Inna Solovyova, James Thomas

$305

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