Pages from Memory – Maeterlinck and the Russian Theatre Creators
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- Theatrical Colloquia
- Publisher
- Sciendo
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2019
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 62–75
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.2478/tco-2019-0017
- Source
- De Gruyter
- Keywords
- License
- Green
Abstract
The dramaturgy and the essays of Maurice Maeterlinck are the starting point for essential changes in the art of theatre representation, marking the transition from realism, which had become naturalist, towards a theatre in which the essence and theatricality conduct to a revitalization of the theatre. The Russian directors V.E. Meyerhold and K.S. Stanislavsky are two of the most important theatre personalities who have searched for the new forms of theatre. Analyzing the first steps of Meyerhold’s directing, it is easy to see that the symbolist roots of theatre making can be found in the French theatre art, also inspired by Maeterlinck. Stanislavsky, the master from The Moscow Art Theatre, was also the first director to stage The Blue Bird, before the text was even published. We shall follow, in the next pages, fragments from the Russian theatre which refer to these episodes.
