9Meyerhold’s Female Collaborators
Introduction: Rediscovering Female Voices
In his Introduction to the fourth edition of Edward Braun’s Meyerhold on Theatre, Jonathan Pitches suggested an expansion of the field of Meyerhold studies through an application of a range of contemporary theories, such as those appertaining to the fields of audience research, material culture, and cultural transmission. He gives one example of such application, namely feminism, underlining that a reappraisal of Meyerhold’s work relationships with female artists like Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Zinaida Raikh, Maria Babanova, Lyubov Popova, and Varvara Stepanova ‘would bring out the extent to which Meyerhold was operating ...
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