The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold

Introduction

Stefan Aquilina

DOI: 10.4324/9781003110804-11

The identification of connections within and across different disciplines is among the most important shifts in recent modernist studies. One factor impacting on this cross-fertilisation is that of contextualisation, where individual theatre practitioners and their practices are treated not as separate entities but, as Franco Ruffini (2017: 53) puts it when discussing Stanislavsky, as creating ‘a space next to deserving others, a small entry but within a large world’. Untangling cross-fertilisations and connections within the larger world or landscape of modern theatre can follow either an implicit or an explicit approach. Implicit connections are exemplified by volumes such as Alison ...