Women In Russian Theatre

A fascinating feminist counterpoint to the established area of Russian theatre populated by male artists such as Stanislavsky, Chekov and Meyerhold. Schuler focuses upon the extraordinary lives and work of eight Russian actresses.

Women in Russian Theatre is a fascinating feminist counterpoint to the established area of Russian theatre populated by male artists such as Stanislavsky, Chekov and Meyerhold. With unprecedented access to newly-opened files in Russia, Catherine Schuler brings to light the actresses who had an impact upon Russian modernist theatre.
Schuler brings to light the extradordinary lives and work of eight Russian actresses who flourished on the stage between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Chapter 1 The Apogee of the Actress; Chapter 2 The Nina Zarechnaia Epidemic; Chapter 3 Mariia Savina; Chapter 4 An Uneasy Alliance; Chapter 5 Narodnichestvo, Nationalism, and Neurasthenia; Chapter 6 Enter the Actress-Entrepreneur; Chapter 7 Lidia Iavorskaia; Chapter 8 Little Girl Lost;