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Titre Radlov et le théâtre de la Comédie populaire
Auteur Christine Hamon
Mir@bel Revue Cahiers du monde russe
Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique
Numéro volume 23, no 1, janvier-mars 1982
Rubrique / Thématique
Chronique
Page 109-116
Résumé anglais Christine Hamon, Radlov and the theatre of popular Comedy. S. Radlov is as yet a little known character of the Russian theatrical vanguard. Though as a stage-manager he did not enjoy the fame of Stanislavskii and Meyerhold - whose disciple he was in the pre-revolutionary era - he nevertheless achieved interesting theatrical creations in the twenties. The episode of popular Comedy that he animated in Petrograd between 1920 and 1922 deserves to be remembered because of its originality. His theatre favored the technic of improvisation on canvas, inspired by the commedia dell'arte, revived by Meyerhold in his studio. It also included the participation of circus artists (clowns, acrobats, jugglers, etc.) which allowed to offer original performances with scenes inspired by circus and music-hall. The originality of these shows was due to the association of renewed traditional technics and of theatrical styles somewhat scorned till then. The resulting performances, often of a satirical character, enjoyed considerable success with the popular public.
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