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One of 1 000 and 3 000 copies printed. Rare playbills for the Meyerhold Theatre. These playbills were prepared for the following performances: The Forest (based on A. Ostrovsky's play; premier night – 19 January 1924), The Mandate (play by Nikolai Erdman; premier night – 20 April 1925), Roar, China! (play by Sergei Tretyakov; premier night – 23 January 1926) and The Government Inspector (based on N. Gogol's play; premier night – 9 December 1926).First three playbills were issued for the Meyerhold Theatre tour in Tashkent (the Uzbek SSR) and the last one – for the Moscow performance. It was the debut for five actors who studied at the Meyerhold's own school. The leading actors - Meyerhold's wife Zinaida Reich, Sergey Martinson and Erast Garin – were also participated in it. Sergei Tretyakov's play Roar, China!, directed by Meyerhold's student V. Fyodorov, became one of the most famous and successful productions in the history of Soviet theatre. It was performed in many cities across the…
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Meyerhold Theatre (TIM). Four playbills.
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Mikhail Bulgakov. Dni Turbinykh. [The Days of the Turbins]. Playbill.
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One of 5 000 copies printed.The premier night of this play based upon Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The White Guard about the Russian intelligentsia held on 5th October 1926. It was the first Bulgakov's play performed in Moscow by the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT).During rehearsals representatives of OGPU and the censors were coming to the theatre to hold lengthy negotiations with the author and director, and to suggest alterations. The play was passed for performance only at MAT – no productions were to be permitted anywhere else. Roger Cockrell wrote in his commentary for the Bulgakov's translation: 'It archived great acclaim, becoming known as "the second Seagull", as the first performance of Chekhov's Seagull at MAT in 1898 had inaugurated the theatre's financial and artistic success after a long period of mediocrity and falling popularity. This was a turning point in the fortunes of MAT. Which had been coming under fire for only preforming the classics and not adopting styles of acting and subject matter…
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