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’?