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SHAGI/STEPS 5(4)

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The Arbuzov studio: Autogenesis of a theatre

A. V. Mashukova
Independent Researcher (Russia, Moscow)

DOI: 10.22394/2412-9410-2019-5-4-36-54

Ключевые слова: “The Town at the Dawn”, Arbuzov, Pluchek, Gladkov, Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, drama studio, studio approach, improvisation, multi-author creation, biomechanics, scene studies system, the Great Terror, K

Аннотация: The Arbuzov Studio (known formally as the State Moscow Theatre Studio led by Alexey Arbuzov and Valentin Pluchek) is a phenomenon in the history of Soviet theatre. It came into being in 1938, at the height of the Great Purge, when theatres were liquidated on a massive scale. The play “The Town at Dawn”, which dealt with the construction of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, had been created by a group of students through scene studies — a system that traced its origin to the improvisational theatres of the first decades of the 20th century, above all the Mobile-Popular Theatre of P. P. Gaideburov and N. F. Skarskaya and their drama studio “Palaestra”. Arbuzov and Pluchek were consistent in their striving to meld the Stanislavsky Method of acting with the aesthetic heritage of Vsevolod Meyerhold, by then out of favor. Today, the Arbuzov Studio’s files, kept for almost eighty years in the home of Isai Kuznetsov, a playwright and screenwriter, let us retrace the history of the play and its performance, and also provide new insights into the ambience of the late 1930s. They also allow us to try to understand why that very stage production resulted in the most intense emotional theatre experience for the youngsters who shortly before the war left schools and entered institutes and then in 1941 went off to war. Furthermore, the documents let us draw a line between a multi-author play about a Komsomol construction site and key theatre productions of the Thaw period, notably those of the studio theatre “Sovremennik” (The Contemporary) and those directed by Anatoly Efros at the Central Children’s Theatre. The article includes excerpts from unedited files in Kuznetsov’s archive.

Для цитирования: Mashukova, A. V. (2019). The Arbuzov studio: Autogenesis of a theatre. Shagi/Steps, 5(4), 36–54. (In Russian). DOI: 10.22394/2412-9410-2019-5-4-36-54.