What did Bakhtin think about the theatre? That it was outdated? That is lsquo;stopped being a serious genrersquo; after Shakespeare? Could a thinker to whose work ideas of theatricality; visuality; and embodied activity were so central really have nothing to say about theatrical practice? Bakhtin and Theatre is the first book to explore the relation between Bakhtinrsquo;s ideas and the theatre practice of his time.? In that time; Stanislavsky co-founded the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 and continued to develop his ideas about theatre until his death in 1938. Stanislavskyrsquo;s pupil Meyerhold embraced the Russian Revolution and created some stunningly revolutionary productions in the 1920s; breaking with the realism of his former teacher. Less than twenty years after Stanislavskyrsquo;s death and Meyerholdrsquo;s assassination; a young student called Grotowski was studying in Moscow; soon to break the mould with his Poor Theatre. All three directors challenged the prevailing notion of theatre; drawing on; disagreeing with and challenging each otherrsquo;s ideas. Bakhtinrsquo;s early writings about action; character and authorship provide a revealing framework for understanding this dialogue between these three masters of Twentieth Century theatre.
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