5Looking at Meyerhold’s Unseen Theatre
This chapter addresses the importance of visual spectatorship in Meyerhold’s theatre. By identifying and exploring the ‘modes of looking’ suggested by production examples from the late 1920s and 1930s, it considers the relationship between how scenographic structures invite audiences to look and how looking can become a profoundly ideological act, particularly within the context of a totalitarian state. Perhaps unexpectedly, the examples analysed in this chapter come from a specific subset of Meyerhold’s productions; those that were cancelled prior to their first performance. These ‘unseen’ works provide an illuminating starting point to consider the nature of ...
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