Theatrical effectiveness of Leonid Andreev’s miniature plays
Abstract
The article is devoted to the problem of theatrical effectiveness of Leonid Andreev’s miniature plays. Analyzing them while applying historico-cultural, intertextual, and stylistic methods of research in the context of the cabaret culture of the beginning of the twentieth century, the author discusses the parodic devices, the sources of the comic, and the strategies of theatrical adaptation of the plays, as well as the reception of their staging by critics and ordinary spectators. Reasons for the lack of popularity of Andreev’s miniature plays are attributed to poor stage directing, which did not fully employed the plays’ entertaining properties, as well as to the changes of the audience in the new socio-cultural situation.
About the Author
G. N. Boeva
St. Petersburg State University of industrial technologies and design
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dr. Habil., Associate professor
18, B. Morskaya St., Saint Petersburg, 191186
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For citations:
Boeva G.N. Theatrical effectiveness of Leonid Andreev’s miniature plays. Bulletin of Vaganova Ballet Academy. 2019;(6):91-101. (In Russ.)
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