Event – Meyerhold and the Russian Avant-Garde.

26th February 2009, 7.00 p.m. Studio One.

The Stanislavski Centre presented a screening of Michael Craig’s documentary film, Meyerhold, Theatre and the Russian Avant-Garde. Director and producer Michael Craig , whose company Copernicus Films produced the documentary, introduced the screening and talked about his work.

Meyerold became an acting student of Nemirovich-Danchenko in 1896, and worked with Stanislavski as a member of Moscow Art Theatre until 1902 where his roles included Treplev in Chekhov’s The Seagull. As a director, he collaborated with avant-garde and futurist artists like Popova and Maykovsky to create a new kind of theatre in Russia in the early 1920s. His goal was to break free from naturalistic theatre set design and solve the problem of combing two dimensionality of the set with the three dimensionality of actors.