Along with Konstantin Stanislavski, Vsevelod Meyerhold was the leading theatrical innovator of the early 20th century, certainly in Russia and arguably the world. A victim of Stalin's purges (he was shot in 1940), Meyerhold had anticipated the mid-century move away from naturalistic drama towards a theatre of performance, drawing on the tradition of circus and commedia dell'arte.His writings might well have remained …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM on April 24, 2017