| A Meeting About Laughter Contributor(s): Freedman, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3718655810 ISBN-13: 9783718655816 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1995 Annotation: A companion to "The Major Plays of Nikolai Erdman: The Warrant and The Suicide," this collection of Erdman's short plays contains the startling transcript of a discussion of "The Suicide" at the Vakhtangov Theatre in 1930 and the surviving fragments of "The Hypnotist," which would have been Erdman's third full-length play had he not been a victim of Stalin's campaign to control the arts. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - General - Performing Arts | Theater - General |
| Dewey: 891.724 |
| LCCN: 00340495 |
| Series: Russian Theatre Archive, |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 7.44" W x 9.69" (1.07 lbs) 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First Published in 1995. A Meeting About Laughter is a collection of sketches, interludes and theatrical parodies by Nikolai Erdman, Vladimir Mass and others. Translated from the Russian Theatre Archive by John Freedman, Harvard University. Erdman is best known as the author of The Warrant and The Suicide, both written for Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1920s. Also including the transcript of a startling discussion of The Suicide at the Vakhtangov Theatre in 1930 and the only surviving fragments of Erdman's third play The Hypnotist. |