AVANT-GARDE THEATRE IMAGES
RUSSIA
Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold
Scene from the 1922 Moscow production of The Magnanimous Cuckold
directed by Meyerhold.
A model of the set designed by artist Liubov Popova.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
A 1930 Moscow production of Mayakovsky's satirical play The Bathhouse
directed by Meyerhold.
GERMANY
Ernst Toller
Toller's expressionist play Transfiguration staged in Berlin in 1919.
Georg Kaiser
A 1922 production of Kaiser's Gas performed at
the Bolshoi Drama Theater in St. Petersberg.
Bertolt Brecht
Top right: The clown scene from Brecht's Lehrstück performed
in Baden Baden in 1929. Above: Brecht's 1931 Berlin revival of
Mann ist Mann starring Peter Lorre as Gaily Gay.
POLAND
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
A character in Witkiewicz's play The Cuttlefish, revived at Circot 2 in Crakow in 1956.
The production was directed by Tadeusz Kantor.
Tadeusz Kantor
Kantor's The Dead Class (1975).
DADA & SURREALISM
Dadaist Hugo Ball at the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916.
Salvador Dalí preparing the set and costumes for a production
of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Photograph by Philippe Halsman.
Left to Right: Tristan Tzara, Antonin Artaud, Roger Vitrac and Robert Desnos.
Important Presursors
Left to Right: Alfred Jarry, Raymond Roussel, Guillaume Apollinaire & Pierre
Albert-Birot.
THEATRE OF THE ABSURD
Samuel Beckett
A scene from the original 1953 Paris production of Beckett's Waiting For Godot.
BUTOH
Contemporary Butoh performers.
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