biography
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Meyerhold, Vsevolod Emilievich
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pronunciation:
[miyerhohld]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1874–c.1940)
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| biography:
| Actor and director, who played a major role in the emergence of Soviet theatre, born in Penza, Russia. He joined the Moscow Art Theatre as an actor, and was appointed by Stanislavsky as director of the new Studio on Povarskaya Street in 1905. He later became director of the Theatre of the Revolution (1922–4) and of the Meyerhold Theatre (1923–38). His system of Bio-Mechanics, in which actors were required to suppress their individuality, and the stage setting was minimal, was eventually condemned by the Stalinist regime. He was arrested in 1939 after delivering a defiant speech at a theatre conference, and either died in a labour camp or was executed. |
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