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Translated and Visiting Russian Theatre in Britain, 1945–2015

A "Russia of the Theatrical Mind"?
By:Cynthia Marsh
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9783030443320
eText ISBN:9783030443337
Edition:0
Copyright:2020
Format:Reflowable

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This book tackles questions about the reception and production of translated  and untranslated Russian theatre in post-WW2 Britain: why in British minds is Russia viewed almost as a run-of-the-mill production of a Chekhov play. Is it because Chekhov is so dominant in British theatre culture? What about all those other Russian writers?  Many of them are very different from Chekhov. A key question was formulated, thanks to a review by Susannah Clapp of Turgenev’s A Month in the Country: have the British staged a ‘Russia of the theatrical mind’?