Fatal eggs. I

The Russian neo-Soviet stage-drama system in the formative years (1924-1928)

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https://doi.org/10.4000/mimesis.2140

Abstract

This text is the first part of a broader investigation aimed at reconstructing typologies, institutions and structures of the Russian-speaking theatre-drama production system in the early years of the Soviet State (1924-1928), as well as the activity of its main protagonists. In particular, moving from an historiographical Brief premise, this text examines the passage from the spectacular typologies peculiar to the years of the civil war (agitki, massovki, etc.) to the context in which the new genre of heroic-revolutionary drama arose; the interactions between this and some of the thematic and structural characteristics of contemporary films production; the institutionalization of the scenic-dramatic collectives which were already operating in the revolutionary field (self-active theaters, Proletkul't); and the more or less conflictual relations between the Art Theatre and its main Studios.

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Massimo Lenzi, University of Turin

È nato a Lucca nel 1958. È professore associato di Discipline dello spettacolo presso il Dipartimento StudiUm dell’Università di Torino, dove tiene corsi di Fenomenologia delle arti performative, Fenomenologia dello spettacolo tecnologico e Teoria del teatro. Su «Mimesis Journal» sono già usciti alcuni suoi saggi, fra cui Obrazy, una serie di “profili di registi russi della seconda generazione”. Tra i suoi lavori, i volumi L’istrione iperboreo (1993), Maschere Musiche (2000, con Roberto Tessari) e La natura della convenzione (2004). Ha inoltre pubblicato le raccolte di versi Orfeo (1984), Rime. In figura (1992) e Campi inelisi (1997), nonché traduzioni e versioni di Ejzenštejn, Blok, Vjačeslav Ivanov, Florenskij, Bel’skij, Beketova, Fet, Bal’mont, Tjutčev, Blake, Eminescu, Sergej Isaev e Vygotski

Published

2020-12-08

How to Cite

Lenzi, M. (2020). Fatal eggs. I: The Russian neo-Soviet stage-drama system in the formative years (1924-1928). Mimesis Journal, 9(2), 111–128. https://doi.org/10.4000/mimesis.2140

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