Russian Futurist Theatre

Robert Leach is an independent scholar. From 2005-2008 he was Head of Drama in the School of Media and Performing Arts at the University of Cumbria. He is the author of Partners of the Imagination: the Lives, Art and Struggles of John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy (Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2012), Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre (Exeter University Press, 2006; shortlisted for Theatre Book of the Year), Stanislavsky and Meyerhold (Peter Lang AG, 2003), A History of Russian Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 1999 (contributing editor, with Victor Borovsky), Revolutionary Theatre (Routledge, 1994), Vsevolod Meyerhold (Cambridge University Press, 1989), The Punch and Judy Show: History, Tradition and Meaning (Batsford, 1985). He has also written two successful textbooks, Theatre Studies: the Basics (Routledge, 2008; 2nd edition, 2013) and Makers of Modern Theatre (Routledge, 2004).

• List of illustrationsNoteIntroduction1.Manifestoes and Meanings2.Theatricalising Futurism3.Futurism and Revolution4.Transrational Drama5.Futurist Acting6.The Montage of Attractions7.From Where to Where?8.The Case Is ClosedChronologyBibliographyIndex

Written with characteristic verve and clarity, Robert Leach’s Russian Futurist Theatre is sure to become the definitive study on Futurism for historians and practitioners alike. Complex cultural and political histories are laid out with enviable simplicity; a period of such electric creativity sparks off the page.