Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
That Third Guy: A Comedy from the Stalinist 1930s with Essays on Theater
That Third Guy: A Comedy from the Stalinist 1930s with Essays on Theater
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Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's collection of theater writings, translated into English for the first time, showcases his powerful and imaginative vision of theater. The centerpiece is his play That Third Guy (1937), a farce written at the onset of the Stalinist Terror and never performed, which parodies the themes of Eros and empire in the Cleopatra tales of Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw. The volume also includes selections from his compelling essays on Shakespeare, Pushkin, Shaw, and the philosophy of theater, reflecting on the space, time, language, actor's experience, and the relationship between theater and the everyday.
Format: Hardback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 07 August 2018
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
This collection of theater writings by the Russian modernist Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky brings his powerful, wildly imaginative vision of theater to an English-language audience for the first time. The centerpiece is his play That Third Guy (1937), a farce written at the onset of the Stalinist Terror and never performed. Its plot builds on Alexander Pushkin's poem Cleopatra, while parodying the themes of Eros and empire in the Cleopatra tales of two writers Krzhizhanovsky adored: Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw. In a chilling echo of the Soviet 1930s, Rome here is a police state, and the Third Guy (a very bad poet) finds himself in its dragnet. As he scrambles to escape his fate, the end of the Roman Republic thunders on offstage.
The volume also features selections from Krzhizhanovsky's compelling and idiosyncratic essays on Shakespeare, Pushkin, Shaw, and the philosophy of theater. Professionally, he worked with director Alexander Tairov at the Moscow Kamerny Theater, and his original philosophy of the stage bears comparison with the great theater theorists of the twentieth century. In these writings, he reflects on the space and time of the theater, the resonance of language onstage, the experience of the actor, and the relationship between the theater and the everyday. Commentary by Alisa Ballard Lin and Caryl Emerson contextualizes Krzhizhanovsky's writings.
Weight: 576g
Dimension: 158 x 235 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780299317102
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