The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold

INTRODUCTION

Jonathan Pitches

DOI: 10.4324/9781003110804-23

Introduction

In her thought-provoking, insistently current examination of actor training, Acting as a Feminist: Towards a Critical Acting Pedagogy, Lisa Peck identifies four ‘silences’, absences in the historiographic record, which, she argues, have haunted the discipline for years. Each of her silences prompts pause for thought, but it is her third provocation – the absence of ‘the voice of the actor reflecting on his/her/their learning’ (Peck 2021: xiii) – to which this Part is dedicated. Here, we give voice to a tight-knit collection of practitioners, whose embracing of Meyerhold’s Biomechanics, for over 40 years of its transmission, has been pivotal in developing a practice-based ...