List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Stanislavsky: Renewing Tradition through Transmission -- Chapter 3 Misinterpretation of Theatre Practice: Stanislavsky-Smyshlaev -- Chapter 4 Amateur and Proletarian Theatre in Post-Revolutionary Russia -- Chapter 5 Meyerhold: Bias in Transmission Processes -- Chapter 6 Lesser-known Names: Rediscovering Female Voices -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.