Jonathan Pitches is Professor of Theatre and Performance and Head of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds. He specialises in performer training, ecocriticism, and blended learning. He is founding co-editor of the journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training.Stefan Aquilina is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Malta and Co-Director of the Stanislavsky Research Centre. He has published extensively on modern theatre (especially Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, and amateur theatre), the transmission of embodied practice, and interdisciplinary performance.

• Part I: HistoriesPart I: HistoriesIntroductionStefan Aquilina1. Vsevolod Meyerhold and CinemaAnna Kovalova 2. Meyerhold, the MusicianNathan Thomas 3. Meyerhold in the 1930s: Language, Text, Performance Anna Muza4. Meyerhold’s Hamlet: An Unrealised Dream Michelle Assay 5. Looking at Meyerhold’s Unseen TheatreAmy Skinner 6. Performing Communism, or, What if we Took Meyerhold’s Politics Seriously?Teemu Paavolainen Part II: Collaborations and Connections IntroductionStefan Aquilina7. Meyerhold and Stanislavsky: Forty Years of Cordial DisagreementMarie-Christine Autant-Mathieu 8. An Unknown Legacy: Uncovering Traces of Savva Mamontov’s Work in Meyerhold’s Conditional TheatreDonatella Gavrilovich9. Meyerhold’s Female CollaboratorsStefan Aquilina10. The Influence of Giovanni Grasso on Meyerhold’s Works, Theories, and BiographyGabriele Sofia 11. Toward Conscious and Independent Action: Pyotr Lesgaft’s System of Physical Education as Inspiration for Meyerhold’s BiomechanicsMałgorzata Jabłonska12. Meyerhold and Trotsky Robert Leach Part III: SourcesIntroductionJonathan Pitches13. The Commedia Dell’arte Origins of Biomechanics: Actor Training and Collective Creation at the Borodinskaia Street StudioDassia N. Posner The Borodinskaia Street Studio: Documents on Actor Training and Collective CreationTranslated and edited by Dassia N. Posner14. Fragments of a Creative life: Introduction to Five New SourcesStefan Aquilina Letters to Anton Chekhov, 1899–1904 Comments by Doctor Dapertutto on ‘The Denial of Theatre’ by Yury Aikhenvald, 1914 Theatre Pamphlets I: On Dramaturgy and Theatre Culture, 1921 From Meyerhold’s Speech at the Discussion ‘Creative Methods at the Meyerhold Theatre’, 25 December 1930 On the Spatial Composition of Performance, 2 April 1936 Part IV: Practitioner VoicesIntroductionJonathan Pitches15. A Theatre Company as a Meyerholdian Experiment in Grotesque Paul Stebbings and Phil Smith 16. The Evolution of Proper Job: Working with Meyerhold in the Contemporary British Theatre James Beale, Franc Chamberlain, and Chloe Whitehead 17. Biomechanical diasporas: Practitioner Perspectives on the Transmission of Meyerhold’s TechniquesMarcelo Bulgarelli, Terence Mann (Chapman), Claudio Massimo Paternò, and Robert Reid18. Transmission ImpossibleRalph Räuker19. Decoding the Riddle: Applying Meyerhold’s Conception of the Director’s ExplicationBryan Brown and Olya PetrakovaPart Vi: Meyerhold in New Contexts: Transnational Migrations IntroductionStefan Aquilina20. Meyerhold’s Influence on Twentieth-century Japanese TheatreMin Tian 21. Nesting dolls: Sketches in Search of Meyerhold in AustraliaIan Maxwell and Chris Hay22. An Unexpected Triangle: Politis, Meyerhold, and Karaghiozis in Interwar GreeceAntonis Glytzouris 23. Biomechanical Resonances in Turkey: The Working Method of Studio OyuncularıBurç İdem Dinçel 24. Meyerhold’s Influence on the Production Processes of PERFORMA TEATRO (Brazil) Arlete Cavaliere InterdisciplinaritiesJonathan PitchesPart Vii: Meyerhold in New Contexts: InterdisciplinaritiesIntroductionJonathan Pitches25. Meyerhold in the 21st Century: The Meeting Points of Biomechanics and Postdramatic PerformanceDiana Monteiro Toombs 26. The New Meyerhold Theatre: Visualising a Lost Architectural ExperimentRachel Hann 27. Theatrical Biomechanics and Movement ScienceDarren Tunstall 28. Biomechanics in Lockdown: Teaching Meyerhold in the age of COVID-19 Jonathan Pitches

“Hugely informative – and also huge in physical size – The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold is a most important publication that is exemplary in its expression of the strength and diversity of theatre studies internationally today.”Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland in Galway, Stanislavski Studies, September 2023

Jonathan Pitches is Professor of Theatre and Performance and Head of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds. He specialises in performer training, ecocriticism, and blended learning. He is founding co-editor of the journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training.Stefan Aquilina is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Malta and Co-Director of the Stanislavsky Research Centre. He has published extensively on modern theatre (especially Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, and amateur theatre), the transmission of embodied practice, and interdisciplinary performance.

• Part I: HistoriesPart I: HistoriesIntroductionStefan Aquilina1. Vsevolod Meyerhold and CinemaAnna Kovalova 2. Meyerhold, the MusicianNathan Thomas 3. Meyerhold in the 1930s: Language, Text, Performance Anna Muza4. Meyerhold’s Hamlet: An Unrealised Dream Michelle Assay 5. Looking at Meyerhold’s Unseen TheatreAmy Skinner 6. Performing Communism, or, What if we Took Meyerhold’s Politics Seriously?Teemu Paavolainen Part II: Collaborations and Connections IntroductionStefan Aquilina7. Meyerhold and Stanislavsky: Forty Years of Cordial DisagreementMarie-Christine Autant-Mathieu 8. An Unknown Legacy: Uncovering Traces of Savva Mamontov’s Work in Meyerhold’s Conditional TheatreDonatella Gavrilovich9. Meyerhold’s Female CollaboratorsStefan Aquilina10. The Influence of Giovanni Grasso on Meyerhold’s Works, Theories, and BiographyGabriele Sofia 11. Toward Conscious and Independent Action: Pyotr Lesgaft’s System of Physical Education as Inspiration for Meyerhold’s BiomechanicsMałgorzata Jabłonska12. Meyerhold and Trotsky Robert Leach Part III: SourcesIntroductionJonathan Pitches13. The Commedia Dell’arte Origins of Biomechanics: Actor Training and Collective Creation at the Borodinskaia Street StudioDassia N. Posner The Borodinskaia Street Studio: Documents on Actor Training and Collective CreationTranslated and edited by Dassia N. Posner14. Fragments of a Creative life: Introduction to Five New SourcesStefan Aquilina Letters to Anton Chekhov, 1899–1904 Comments by Doctor Dapertutto on ‘The Denial of Theatre’ by Yury Aikhenvald, 1914 Theatre Pamphlets I: On Dramaturgy and Theatre Culture, 1921 From Meyerhold’s Speech at the Discussion ‘Creative Methods at the Meyerhold Theatre’, 25 December 1930 On the Spatial Composition of Performance, 2 April 1936 Part IV: Practitioner VoicesIntroductionJonathan Pitches15. A Theatre Company as a Meyerholdian Experiment in Grotesque Paul Stebbings and Phil Smith 16. The Evolution of Proper Job: Working with Meyerhold in the Contemporary British Theatre James Beale, Franc Chamberlain, and Chloe Whitehead 17. Biomechanical diasporas: Practitioner Perspectives on the Transmission of Meyerhold’s TechniquesMarcelo Bulgarelli, Terence Mann (Chapman), Claudio Massimo Paternò, and Robert Reid18. Transmission ImpossibleRalph Räuker19. Decoding the Riddle: Applying Meyerhold’s Conception of the Director’s ExplicationBryan Brown and Olya PetrakovaPart Vi: Meyerhold in New Contexts: Transnational Migrations IntroductionStefan Aquilina20. Meyerhold’s Influence on Twentieth-century Japanese TheatreMin Tian 21. Nesting dolls: Sketches in Search of Meyerhold in AustraliaIan Maxwell and Chris Hay22. An Unexpected Triangle: Politis, Meyerhold, and Karaghiozis in Interwar GreeceAntonis Glytzouris 23. Biomechanical Resonances in Turkey: The Working Method of Studio OyuncularıBurç İdem Dinçel 24. Meyerhold’s Influence on the Production Processes of PERFORMA TEATRO (Brazil) Arlete Cavaliere InterdisciplinaritiesJonathan PitchesPart Vii: Meyerhold in New Contexts: InterdisciplinaritiesIntroductionJonathan Pitches25. Meyerhold in the 21st Century: The Meeting Points of Biomechanics and Postdramatic PerformanceDiana Monteiro Toombs 26. The New Meyerhold Theatre: Visualising a Lost Architectural ExperimentRachel Hann 27. Theatrical Biomechanics and Movement ScienceDarren Tunstall 28. Biomechanics in Lockdown: Teaching Meyerhold in the age of COVID-19 Jonathan Pitches

“Hugely informative – and also huge in physical size – The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold is a most important publication that is exemplary in its expression of the strength and diversity of theatre studies internationally today.”Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland in Galway, Stanislavski Studies, September 2023

Jonathan Pitches is Professor of Theatre and Performance and Head of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds. He specialises in performer training, ecocriticism, and blended learning. He is founding co-editor of the journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training.Stefan Aquilina is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Malta and Co-Director of the Stanislavsky Research Centre. He has published extensively on modern theatre (especially Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, and amateur theatre), the transmission of embodied practice, and interdisciplinary performance.

• Part I: HistoriesPart I: HistoriesIntroductionStefan Aquilina1. Vsevolod Meyerhold and CinemaAnna Kovalova 2. Meyerhold, the MusicianNathan Thomas 3. Meyerhold in the 1930s: Language, Text, Performance Anna Muza4. Meyerhold’s Hamlet: An Unrealised Dream Michelle Assay 5. Looking at Meyerhold’s Unseen TheatreAmy Skinner 6. Performing Communism, or, What if we Took Meyerhold’s Politics Seriously?Teemu Paavolainen Part II: Collaborations and Connections IntroductionStefan Aquilina7. Meyerhold and Stanislavsky: Forty Years of Cordial DisagreementMarie-Christine Autant-Mathieu 8. An Unknown Legacy: Uncovering Traces of Savva Mamontov’s Work in Meyerhold’s Conditional TheatreDonatella Gavrilovich9. Meyerhold’s Female CollaboratorsStefan Aquilina10. The Influence of Giovanni Grasso on Meyerhold’s Works, Theories, and BiographyGabriele Sofia 11. Toward Conscious and Independent Action: Pyotr Lesgaft’s System of Physical Education as Inspiration for Meyerhold’s BiomechanicsMałgorzata Jabłonska12. Meyerhold and Trotsky Robert Leach Part III: SourcesIntroductionJonathan Pitches13. The Commedia Dell’arte Origins of Biomechanics: Actor Training and Collective Creation at the Borodinskaia Street StudioDassia N. Posner The Borodinskaia Street Studio: Documents on Actor Training and Collective CreationTranslated and edited by Dassia N. Posner14. Fragments of a Creative life: Introduction to Five New SourcesStefan Aquilina Letters to Anton Chekhov, 1899–1904 Comments by Doctor Dapertutto on ‘The Denial of Theatre’ by Yury Aikhenvald, 1914 Theatre Pamphlets I: On Dramaturgy and Theatre Culture, 1921 From Meyerhold’s Speech at the Discussion ‘Creative Methods at the Meyerhold Theatre’, 25 December 1930 On the Spatial Composition of Performance, 2 April 1936 Part IV: Practitioner VoicesIntroductionJonathan Pitches15. A Theatre Company as a Meyerholdian Experiment in Grotesque Paul Stebbings and Phil Smith 16. The Evolution of Proper Job: Working with Meyerhold in the Contemporary British Theatre James Beale, Franc Chamberlain, and Chloe Whitehead 17. Biomechanical diasporas: Practitioner Perspectives on the Transmission of Meyerhold’s TechniquesMarcelo Bulgarelli, Terence Mann (Chapman), Claudio Massimo Paternò, and Robert Reid18. Transmission ImpossibleRalph Räuker19. Decoding the Riddle: Applying Meyerhold’s Conception of the Director’s ExplicationBryan Brown and Olya PetrakovaPart Vi: Meyerhold in New Contexts: Transnational Migrations IntroductionStefan Aquilina20. Meyerhold’s Influence on Twentieth-century Japanese TheatreMin Tian 21. Nesting dolls: Sketches in Search of Meyerhold in AustraliaIan Maxwell and Chris Hay22. An Unexpected Triangle: Politis, Meyerhold, and Karaghiozis in Interwar GreeceAntonis Glytzouris 23. Biomechanical Resonances in Turkey: The Working Method of Studio OyuncularıBurç İdem Dinçel 24. Meyerhold’s Influence on the Production Processes of PERFORMA TEATRO (Brazil) Arlete Cavaliere InterdisciplinaritiesJonathan PitchesPart Vii: Meyerhold in New Contexts: InterdisciplinaritiesIntroductionJonathan Pitches25. Meyerhold in the 21st Century: The Meeting Points of Biomechanics and Postdramatic PerformanceDiana Monteiro Toombs 26. The New Meyerhold Theatre: Visualising a Lost Architectural ExperimentRachel Hann 27. Theatrical Biomechanics and Movement ScienceDarren Tunstall 28. Biomechanics in Lockdown: Teaching Meyerhold in the age of COVID-19 Jonathan Pitches

“Hugely informative – and also huge in physical size – The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold is a most important publication that is exemplary in its expression of the strength and diversity of theatre studies internationally today.”Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland in Galway, Stanislavski Studies, September 2023