Scenes Issue 4
CONTENTS JAMES WOODS: A FILM AND TV GUIDE Journeying through James Woods' credits on film and TV TOP 20 MARCELLO MASTROIANNI FILMS A run through his finest movies and performances FILM SPOTLIGHT: STANNO TUTTI BENE Remembering the 1990 Italian classic, with insights from Valeria Cavalli HENRY JAGLOM: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE Chris Wade guides you through five films to see from this daring maverick BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI'S 1900 Celebrating the controversial Italian epic BOB DYLAN AT THE MOVIES On Screen in 65 and 66 REMEMBERING DENNIS HOPPER Friends and collaborators look back CHAPLIN'S A DOG'S LIFE Celebrating a silent masterpiece
Harry Potter: Weekly Planner Notepad
Celebrate your love of the Harry Potter films with this planner all year long! This undated weekly planner notepad features iconic imagery from the Harry Potter films and is a perfect gift for Harry Potter fans. START PLANNING NOW: Fill in the days on this undated weekly planner to start a year of planning any time 52 PAGES: Plenty of room for all of your events, plans, and projects for every week of the year CONVENIENT SIZE: This undated planner is 8.5 x 11 inches, perfect for your desktop to keep track of important dates, deadlines, or weekly goals PERFECT FOR STUDENTS AND ADULTS: Achieve Hermione Granger levels of organization! This undated planner is perfect for keeping both students and adult professionals organized
Theatre and Performance in East Africa
Theatre and Performance in East Africa looks at indigenous performances to unearth the aesthetic principles, sensibilities and critical framework that underpin African performance and theatre.
Astrid Origins
Before Astrid even got the idea of keeping a Diary, there was already a story to tell. This book captures her first year at the Academy, where she met Randy, Matt, and Jeff, where her friendship with Cody got to the sickening point we see on the other books, where Mickie learned no to trust her, or well, anyone. Here you'll find the origins of your favorite characters' personalities and the roots of their issues.
Astrid Origins
Before Astrid even got the idea of keeping a Diary, there was already a story to tell. This book captures her first year at the Academy, where she met Randy, Matt, and Jeff, where her friendship with Cody got to the sickening point we see on the other books, where Mickie learned no to trust her, or well, anyone. Here you'll find the origins of your favorite characters' personalities and the roots of their issues.
The Body Snatcher
In 1994, historian Scott Allen Nollen published the critically acclaimed Robert Louis Stevenson: Life, Literature and the Silver Screen, the only volume dedicated to screen adaptations of the prolific Scottish author's work. The Body Snatcher provides the same expansive treatment for this classic 1945 "historical horror" film. Opening with a foreword by Gregory William Mank, Nollen includes a detailed history of the serial murders committed by the infamous Burke and Hare in 1828 Edinburgh, a biography of Stevenson, his writing of the 1881 short story "The Body-Snatcher," an account of the making, exhibition and reception of the Val Lewton film. a historical and critical analysis of the film, and a look at subsequent motion picture and television films based on the Burke and Hare murders and other Stevenson adaptations featuring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Illustrated with 150 rare photographs, posters, publicity materials and images from the film.Historian SCOTT ALLEN NOLLEN was educated in film and history at the University of Iowa and served as an archivist with the National Archives and Records Administration. His books on film, literature and music include several involving Scottish history and culture: Robert Louis Stevenson: Life, Literature and the Silver Screen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Cinema, Robin Hood: A Cinematic History and Jethro Tull: A History of the Band. With his wife, Java native YUYUN YUNINGSIH NOLLEN, he has written Chester Morris: His Life and Career, his third book on Boris Karloff, Karloff and the East: Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern and Oceanian Characters and Subjects in His Screen Career and the forthcoming BearManor Media volume Sons of Charlie Chan: Keye Luke, Sen Yung, Benson Fong.
Astrid Origins
Before Astrid even got the idea of keeping a Diary, there was already a story to tell. This book captures her first year at the Academy, where she met Randy, Matt, and Jeff, where her friendship with Cody got to the sickening point we see on the other books, where Mickie learned no to trust her, or well, anyone. Here you'll find the origins of your favorite characters' personalities and the roots of their issues.
Honor Among Thieves
The crosscurrents between the classic Hollywood cinema and France's postwar cinema are rich in producing iconic imagery with philosophical resonance, and no filmmaker has immersed himself in this project more than Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973). Nurtured on American movies, and living through the turbulent years of the mid-20th century, Melville memorialized his wartime experiences in the Resistance with works like Le Silence de la mer and L'Arm矇e des ombres while alternately presenting the stark glamor of his postwar film noir heroes in films like Bob le flambeur and Le Samoura簿. A filmmaker who redefined the rules of postwar independent filmmaking and influenced a generation of New Wave acolytes, Melville was also able to captivate the popular audience with stories of beleaguered existential outsiders-gangsters, thieves, and rogue cops-as they wend their way toward a greater definition of our modern human condition. Honor Among Thieves profiles this filmmaker's eventful life and discusses his cinema as an essential body of work in our reckoning of postwar European cinema, and of Melville's own influence on the filmmakers who admire him.
The Golden Girls: Talking Button
Pay tribute to The Golden Girls with this officially licensed kit celebrating everyone's favorite foursome, including a one-of-a-kind talking button to display at home or in the office. SPECIFICATIONS: A talking button with a Golden Girls decal, featuring signature phrases from the showBOOK INCLUDED: 32-page book with fun quotes and full-color photos throughoutPERFECT GIFT: A must-have gift for fans of The Golden GirlsPORTABLE: Small size allows for fun anytime, anywhereOFFICIALLY LICENSED: Authentic collectible(c) ABC Studios
Blooming Lilies
...the best kind of change, is the change that comes from the inside and begins it's way out until it emerges on the outside; a change that is born underneath then continues and spreads until it has reached the surface... with poems like Omega, Sunset, Last Goodbye and a whole lot more from Poet Dean Murinda comes his second flourishing Poetry Anthology..
The Shakespeare Effect
This lively and provocative study offers a radical reappraisal of a century of Shakespearean theatre. Topics addressed include modernist Shakespearean performance's relation with psychoanalysis, the hidden gender dynamics of the open stage movement, and the appropriation of Shakespeare himself as a dramatic fiction and theatrical icon.
Bush Wireless
Community radio was new to country Victoria when 3CCC began in Castlemaine. It actually broadcast from Harcourt, 8 km from the town, from a studio built in a disused railway building. Most of the locals had heard vague reports of a couple of community stations in Melbourne, but not always good reports. FM radio was unknown, therefore 3CCC had to work hard to gain acceptance. Within a few short years it became one of the most notable and respected community radio stations in Australia. Among those pioneer broadcasters was Ian Braybrook. Ian began as the nervous reader of local newspaper items for the print handicapped, 'Newspaper of the Air'. He went on to present countless radio programs and became a popular broadcaster across the region. Along a thirty-five year journey, he achieved several levels in management and had a big hand in establishing another three stations. He also met and came to know hundreds of people from all walks of life. This is his story.
London in Early Modern English Drama
This book explores the changing representation on the early modern stage of the built environment of London. It covers a period in which the city underwent rapid growth to become the country's first metropolis, and it examines how the urban environment becomes part of the frame of reference of the drama that is set there.
Lung Water
You only ever cared for her. Ever. And I loved her too. I loved her so fucking much. But I wanted to cause you pain. I really wanted to cause you so much pain that you'd never be able to breathe again. After the death of a baby on her ward, Lizzy is facing professional repercussions surrounding her duty of care. As she seeks solace in her family home, old tensions rise to the surface as her mum Carol denies her the comfort she requires. A suicide letter from her dead father resurfaces and Lizzy's world continues to crumble around her as childhood blame for the death of her sister aligns with the guilt she is made to feel about her professional misconduct. This taut two-hander is published in Methuen Drama's Lost Plays series, celebrating new plays that had productionspostponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak and the global shutdown of theatre spaces.
The Rise and Fall of the Royal Shakespeare Company
In this fully illustrated book, Simon Trowbridge tells the story of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He begins by making a comparison between the RSC and France's national theatre company, the Com矇die-Fran癟aise. Like their colleagues in Paris, Peter Hall and his successors Trevor Nunn and Terry Hands believed in the artistic and wider cultural value of a permanent troupe, motivated by excellence, shared values and a mission to constantly renew the great works of dramatic literature. Today, though, Hall's ideas have been jettisoned and the RSC is a brand name, not a company. If the Com矇die-Fran癟aise can last for 340 years and counting, why can't the RSC as created by Hall last for more than fifty? This book proclaims the special significance of the company created by Hall and nurtured by Nunn and Hands, and challenges the view that Hall's ideas are no longer achievable in England.
Acting Across Borders
Studying the careers of popular actors Amedeo Nazzari and Alberto Sordi, Acting Across Borders explores the question of how Italian cinema from the 1930s to 1980s has considered human mobility. Through close readings of a selection of films, Alberto Zambenedetti examines the concept of italianit? (Italian-ness) as manifested in contexts related to migration, diaspora, exile, tourism, travel and their supporting infrastructures. In this wide-ranging study, the methodologies of Film Studies and the Mobilities Framework are combined to illuminate an undertheorised yet vital tradition in the history of the national cinema.
Rehearsing Shakespeare
Rehearsing Shakespeare offers a dynamic guide to practice in rehearsals and workshops for actors, directors and trainers in a UK and global context. The book analyses the roots and development of modern-day approaches to Shakespeare and applies theory of verse analysis to practical work, ranging from the drama student to the highest professional level in major global theatres. At the heart of the book are a series of carefully tested acting exercises, worked with professional actors and drama students across the world, both in English and in translation. Featuring several case studies from the author's own work and the work of others, it explores how acting and directing relate to design and other forms of artistic collaboration during Shakespeare production. An excellent resource for students and teachers of acting and directing courses, drama and English literature students at all levels, new professional actors and professional actors undertaking the exciting task of acting and directing Shakespeare at an international level, Rehearsing Shakespeare offers practical approaches to cutting and editing through to the core challenges of any Shakespearian play.
Paris and the Musical
Paris and the Musical explores how the famous city has been portrayed on stage and screen, investigates why the city has been of such importance to the genre and tracks how it has developed as a trope over the 20th and 21st centuries. From global hits An American in Paris, Gigi, Les Mis矇rables, Moulin Rouge! and The Phantom of the Opera to the less widely-known Bless the Bride, Can-Can, Irma la Douce and Marguerite, the French capital is a central character in an astounding number of Broadway, Hollywood and West End musicals. This collection of 18 essays combines cultural studies, sociology, musicology, art and adaptation theory, and gender studies to examine the envisioning and dramatisation of Paris, and its depiction as a place of romance, hedonism and libertinism or as 'the capital of the arts'. The interdisciplinary nature of this collection renders it as a fascinating resource for a wide range of courses; it will be especially valuable for students and scholars of Musical Theatre and those interested in Theatre and Film History more generally.
Lost in the Dark
Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them--The Shape of Water--won. Since 1990, the production of horror films has risen exponentially worldwide, and in 2013, horror films earned an estimated $400 million in ticket sales. Horror has long been the most popular film genre, and more horror movies have been made than any other kind. We need them. We need to be scared, to test ourselves, laugh inappropriately, scream, and flinch. We need to get through them and come out, blinking, still in one piece. Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film is a straightforward history written for the general reader and student that can serve as a comprehensive reference work. The volume provides a general introduction to the genre, serves as a guidebook to its film highlights, and celebrates its practitioners, trends, and stories. Starting with silent-era horror films and ending with 2020's The Invisible Man, Lost in the Dark looks at decades of horror movies. Author Brad Weismann covers such topics as the roots of horror in literature and art, monster movies, B-movies, the destruction of the American censorship system, international horror, torture porn, zombies, horror comedies, horror in the new millennium, and critical reception of modern horror. A sweeping survey that doesn't scrimp on details, Lost in the Dark is sure to satisfy both the curious and the completist.
Nothing is Personal, It's just Business
So you think you know what the life of an exotic dancer is all about? Maybe you've seen them depicted in movies. Maybe you've read things online. Perhaps you've actually visited a club and seen performances. You may feel the job is relatively easy. Take off your clothes, act sexy in front of people and you'll make a bunch of money. It's not that easy and if you're thinking about entering the industry, you need to read this book. Let me repeat, you need to read this book. The author, Holly Woods, has provided a look at the job that no one else has. Yes, there are plenty of books about dancers. I've read a lot of them. They mainly detail some story of desperation that leads a woman to this job and then inevitably which famous people they encountered. What makes this book so different is this book is an appreciation of the job of stripper as an art form and as a business, while at the same time pointing out the hazards. Every job has its advantages and disadvantages and Holly lets you known them. To succeed you have to understand your customers. She'll help you with that. You will need to build a base. You need to stand out above the rest of the performers. All of these requirements are covered here.
Lost in the Dark
Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them--The Shape of Water--won. Since 1990, the production of horror films has risen exponentially worldwide, and in 2013, horror films earned an estimated $400 million in ticket sales. Horror has long been the most popular film genre, and more horror movies have been made than any other kind. We need them. We need to be scared, to test ourselves, laugh inappropriately, scream, and flinch. We need to get through them and come out, blinking, still in one piece. Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film is a straightforward history written for the general reader and student that can serve as a comprehensive entry-level reference work. The volume provides a general introduction to the genre, serves as a guidebook to its film highlights, and celebrates its practitioners, trends, and stories. Starting with silent-era horror films and ending with 2020's The Invisible Man, Lost in the Dark looks at decades of horror movies. Author Brad Weismann covers such topics as the roots of horror in literature and art, monster movies, B-movies, the destruction of the American censorship system, international horror, torture porn, zombies, horror comedies, horror in the new millennium, and critical reception of modern horror. A sweeping survey that doesn't scrimp on details, Lost in the Dark is sure to satisfy both the curious and the completist.
And This is My Friend Sandy
This book situates the production of The Boy Friend and the Players' Theatre in the context of a post-war London and reads The Boy Friend, and Wilson's later work, as exercises in contemporary camp. It argues for Wilson as a significant and transitional figure both for musical theatre and for modes of homosexuality in the context of the pre-Wolfenden 1950s. Sandy Wilson's The Boy Friend is one of the most successful British musicals ever written. First produced at the Players' Theatre Club in London in 1953 it transferred to the West End and Broadway, making a star out of Julie Andrews and gave Twiggy a leading role in Ken Russell's 1971 film adaptation. Despite this success, little is known about Wilson, a gay writer working in Britain in the 1950s at a time when homosexuality was illegal. Drawing on original research assembled from the Wilson archives at the Harry Ransom Center, this is the first critical study of Wilson as a key figure of 1950s British theatre. Beginning with the often overlooked context of the Players' Theatre Club through to Wilson's relationship to industry figures such as Binkie Beaumont, No禱l Coward and Ivor Novello, this study explores the work in the broader history of Soho gay culture. As well as a critical perspective on The Boy Friend, later works such as Divorce Me, Darling!, The Buccaneer and Valmouth are examined as well as uncompleted musical versions of Pygmalion and Goodbye to Berlin to give a comprehensive and original perspective on one of British theatre's most celebrated yet overlooked talents.
Personal Stories in Public Spaces
Playback Theatre is a form of interactive performance and community engagement created in 1975 in the Mid Hudson Valley of New York, and now practiced in 70 countries in a wide range of contexts. Teams of actors and musicians listen to stories told by audience members then act them out without script, score, or rehearsal, building dialogue and connection.PERSONAL STORIES IN PUBLIC SPACES: Essays on Playback Theatre by Its Founders gathers together, for the first time in one place, key essays, articles, talks, and reminiscences by Playback Theatre's founders, Jonathan Fox and Jo Salas. Covering a body of work that spans almost five decades and locations from war zones to great cities, this anthology takes the reader on a journey from the earliest days of Playback Theatre to the present day, and includes several essays written specifically for this collection.
The British Boxing Film
This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of the sport of boxing as depicted in British film. Through close textual analysis, production and reception histories and readings that establish social, cultural and political contexts, the book explores the ways in which prizefighters, amateur boxers, managers and supporters (from Regency gentry to East End gangsters) are represented on the British screen. Exploring a complex and controversial sport, it addresses not only the pain-versus-reward dilemma that boxing necessarily engenders, but also the frequently censorious attitude of those in authority, with boxing's social development facilitating a wider study around issues of class, gender and race, latterly contesting the whole notion of 'Britishness'. Varying in scope from Northern circuit comedies to London-based 'ladsploitation' films, from auteur entries by Alfred Hitchcock to programme fillers by E.J. Fancey, the boxing film also serves as a prismthrough which one can trace major historical shifts in the British film industry.
Criminals as Heroes in Popular Culture
This book delves into humanity's compulsive need to valorize criminals. The criminal hero is a seductive figure, and audiences get a rather scopophilic pleasure in watching people behave badly. This book offers an analysis of the varied and vexing definitions of hero, criminal, and criminal heroes both historically and culturally. This book also examines the global presence, gendered complications, and gentle juxtapositions in criminal hero figures such as: Robin Hood, Breaking Bad, American Gods, American Vandal, Kabir, Plunkett and Macleane, Martha Stewart, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, Ocean's 11, Ocean's Eleven, and Let The Bullets Fly.
Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty Across Europe
The key concepts of the book are media, class, poverty, and shaming. The contributors to this book examine how certain social relations and their cultural meanings in the media, namely class and poverty, are transformed into factual or moral attributes of people and situations. Class and poverty are not understood as certain things and actions, or concepts and numbers; both class and poverty are assumed to be, above all, particular social relationships or a set of relations between people, things and symbols. Without denying that contempt for the destitute Other is an affect found throughout history and in various socioeconomic contexts, the chapters in this book - through their concern with the mediated gaze on class - narrate predominantly the challenges brought about by the media's spectacular take on poverty and low status as they (at least) coincide with the neoliberal era. This volume will be essential reading forthe scholars specialising in the study of media and social inequalities form the vantage points of Media Studies, Sociology, Anthropology or European Studies.
Diamond Fiddler
This book is for all the directors and dramaturges, all the cast members on stage and all the crew members behind the scenes, who will pool their talents to present new productions of Fiddler on the Roof from 2017 to 2039. As you gather in high schools, colleges, and community theatres, as you travel from city to town on road tours, whatever country you live in and whatever language you speak, I hope this book will be a reliable companion. I hope you will find answers in these pages to the many questions I know you will have. I hope my words will help you beckon to the fiddler so that you can bring him with you on your journey. And most important, I hope that through you, new audiences will come to see the many facets of this brilliant Jerome Robbins diamond.And to the rest of you, to budding feminists and learned academics and lovers of Broadway, be you Papas, Mamas, Sons, or Daughters, if you are rabbis or butchers or any profession in between, whether you are a rich man or only the wife of a poor tailor, you are entitled to some happiness... so I hope you like it too.
All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek
How to win at poker. The power of a business's mission statement. If you can dial a telephone, you can do anything. These are the lessons to be learned from "Star Trek." First a hit television show, and then a pop culture phenomenon, "Star Trek" is now the basis for inspiration and guidance in our daily lives. ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM WATCHING STAR TREK is an anthology of valuable lessons that can be found within the episodes of "Star Trek." Discover why its dangerous to wear a plain red shirt, why Captain Kirk was such a superb leader, and why you should always help people in need.
Adapting Margaret Atwood
This book engages with Margaret Atwood's work and its adaptations. Atwood has long been appreciated for her ardent defence of Canadian authors and her genre-bending fiction, essays, and poetry. However, a lesser-studied aspect of her work is Atwood's role both as adaptor and as source for adaptation in media as varied as opera, television, film, or comic books. Recent critically acclaimed television adaptations of the novels The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu) and Alias Grace (Amazon) have rightfully focused attention on these works, but Atwood's fiction has long been a source of inspiration for artists of various media, a seeming corollary to Atwood's own tendency to explore the possibilities of previously undervalued media (graphic novels), genres (science-fiction), and narratives (testimonial and historical modes). This collection hopes to expand on other studies of Atwood's work or on their adaptations to focus on the interplay between the two, providing an interdisciplinary approach that highlights the protean nature of the author and of adaptation.
Francesco da Milano
Who would have thought you could play classical music on a ukulele? But you can! Here are 25 ricercars and fantasias by Francesco da Milano, Volume 3, for lute in tablature and modern notation. These pieces have been transcribed for the baritone ukulele, the four-course Renaissance guitar, or low G ukulele - (just use the tablature but substitute G-C-E-A for D-G-B-E where indicated). Most are also playable on the soprano and tenor ukulele and, of course, for the guitar. Have fun! Recommended for Intermediate and Advanced Performers
El Pensamiento Cinematogr獺fico de Gilles Deleuze En DOS Films de David Lynch
Lo que encontramos en esta publicaci籀n es una aproximaci籀n al cine de David Lynch desde el pensamiento cinematogr獺fico de Gilles Deleuze. La conjunci籀n de estos dos autores, en apariencia muy distantes, permite la creaci籀n de un di獺logo entre filosof穩a y creaci籀n audiovisual que tiene el fin de reflexionar sobre la naturaleza propia de las im獺genes cinematogr獺ficas. A trav矇s de dos pel穩culas del director norteamericano, Carretera Perdida (1997) y Mulholland Drive (2001), se ponen en juego im獺genes pensadas por Deleuze como la imagen-recuerdo, el 竄sue簽o implicado罈, la imagen-sue簽o o la imagen-cristal.
Love Me Now
A brutal debut play exploring the toxicity of casual dating and the grey area between love and sex, consent and compliance, yes and no.
I Am Sheikh Mujib; An Epic Monologue
In his epic monologue, Bengali-Swedish writer Anisur Rahman (b. 1978) brings to life the voice and mind of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman during all hardships and struggle for an independent nation for the Bengali speaking people of the Indian Subcontinent. The political history of Bangladesh has manifested itself as the people's proclamation of language as a cultural heritage, and as an epitome of resistance to colonial powers mapping out the postcolonial nations.
Perry Como’s Christmas Cracker
Two theatrical impressarios attempt to tell the nativity story in a pantomime form with the help of Mary from the audience. This play documents the terrible travesty that follows and how it is redeemed by Mary's mangled memory of the 'true' Christmas story. This is the first play by the groundbreaking theatre company Stan's Cafe.This edition includes photographs from the original production and bonus material: the original programme text, a 'making of' essay and an anecdote about the company's inept and nearly lethal attempt to tour the show.
The Little Book of Shakespeare’s Insults
Away, you scullion, you rampallion, you fustilarian!Along with penning some of the most sublime passages in all of English Literature, Shakespeare was a master when it came to casting a wicked comeback or hurling a barbed insult. Whether it's Prospero calling Caliban a "freckled whelp, hag-born" in The Tempest or King Lear railing against his daughter Goneril with the damning words, "Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood", Shakespeare didn't hold back when it came to getting creative with his slights. Packed full of eloquent stings and poisonous putdowns, this is the perfect resource for anyone looking to scorn an enemy - without resorting to swearing! "Away, you starvelling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's-tongue, bull's-pizzle, you stock-fish!" Henry IV Part I (Act 2, Scene 4) "Away, you three-inch fool." The Taming of the Shrew (Act 4, Scene 1) "Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-liver'd boy." Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 3) "The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes." The Comedy of Errors (Act 5, Scene 4)
Modern Theatre in Russia
What did modern theatre in Russia look like and how did it foreground tradition building and transmission processes? The book challenges conventional historiographical approaches by weaving contemporary theories on cultural transmission into its historical narrative. It argues that processes of transmission - training spaces, acting manuals, photographic evidence, newspaper reports, international networking, informal encounters, cultural memories - contribute to the formation and consolidation of theatre traditions. Through English translations of rare Russian sources, the book expounds on: *side-lined material on Stanislavsky, including his relationship with German actor Ludwig Barnay, use of improvisation at the First Studio, and rehearsal practices for Artists and Admirers (1933); *Valentin Smyshlaev's acting manual The Technique to Process Stage Performance and the creation of hybrid practices; *proletarian theatre as an amateur-professional combination and force in the transformation of everyday life, as seen in the Proletkult's volume Art at the Workers' Clubs; *Meyerhold's Borodin Studio as an early example of Practice as Research, his European tour of 1930, and international persona as depicted in newspapers published in the West; and *Asja Lacis's work with children, which contributes to current efforts to address the gender imbalance that is often characteristic of modernism. This historical-theoretical investigation is combined with practical exercises that provide a more experiential understanding of the modern performance realities involved. In this way, the book speaks not only to theatre scholars and historians, but also to students and practitioners engaged in practical work.
