Freeze. A Romance with the Theatre – Shapiro Adolf – New Literary Review – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-4448-2753-6
Freeze. A Romance with the Theatre
39.99 €
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Freeze. A Romance with the Theatre
39.99 €
"The most important thing you expect from a performance, and now from a book, is whether hidden connections will be revealed between random events, episodes that have largely made the play's character (or you) who they (or you) are..." In 1992, the creative career of one of the most significant and vibrant contemporary theater directors, Adolf Shapiro, was split in two. The Riga Youth Theater, which he directed and which had become a cult classic in the USSR, was closed. For the next thirty years, A. Shapiro worked as an independent director, staging plays at major Russian drama and musical theaters, and working in Nicaragua, Estonia, Poland, Venezuela, the USA, France, Israel, Brazil, Greece, and China. His book is a documentary novel that brings together various biographical stories, from his post-war childhood and first theatrical impressions to the story of the demise of the Riga theater. From the dreams of the 1960s and the kitchens of the 1970s to the streets of the 1990s and the theaters of the 2000s. From Stanislavsky's experience staging Chekhov's plays to reflections on the new in 21st-century theater. The book's protagonists include M. Knebel, N. Akimov, I. Smoktunovsky, V. Havel, A. Efros, N. Krymova, O. Efremov, D. Borovsky, B. Zaborov, O. Tabakov, T. Stoppard, S. Dreiden, and others.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Theatrical series