Yury Lyubimov: Thirty Years at the Taganka Theatre (1964-1994), Vol. 21

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Tracing Lyubimov's work play by play, we discover an indivudual doomed to be at odds with the prevailing political and social climate of his literary contemporaries. From this unique book there emerges a clear picture of Lyubimov's mischievous, provocative, fearless, and tireless imagination.
In this fascinating study of Yury Lyubimov's tempestuous career and his liberating style of theatre, Birgit Beumers thoroughly explores the making of a major figure in twentieth-century theatre. She traces the development of Lyubimov's ideas, from his arrival at the Taganka theatre in 1964, through his expulsion in 1984 and his period of exile in the West, until his return in 1989 to a much-changed Russia.

FROM THE CRITICS

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This well-researched and informed survey considers one of the great contemporary artistic marriages.... Beumers highlights the Taganka's metaphoric treatments of the individual's role in society and the theatre's responsibility to its audience, the humanistic tradition of great Russian literature, and the at-risk intelligentsia who created it....A valuable resource for those interested in theatre and in the intersection of arts and politics.

Yury Lyubimov