Book Presentation: Rediscovering Stanislavsky

Maria Shevtsova introduces her new book Rediscovering Stanislavsky, highlighting lesser-known aspects of his theatre practice related to the visual arts, music, dance, and his religious worldview and his multiple innovations within his six laboratory studios. She discusses the impact of the 1920s and 1930s on the Moscow Art Theatre and Stanislavsky’s legacy as viewed from the perspective of contemporary European theatre. Followed by a Q&A.

Maria Shevtsova is Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her articles and books, translated into many languages, include Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre: Process to Performance, Robert Wilson (2nd edition) and The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing (co-authored). She is an invited theatre critic, jury member, lecturer and interviewer at prominent theatre festivals across the world, not least in Russia, as well as lecturing internationally at universities and acting and directing schools. She is co-editor of the internationally acclaimed journal New Theatre Quarterly published by Cambridge University Press.

The event will be held in English.