The Structure of Plasticity
Resistance and Accommodation in Russian New Drama
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14997609 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susanna Weygandt (Susanna Weygandt received her PhD from Princeton University and studied directing at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (G.I.T.I.S.). Her first monograph, After Stanislavsky: Post-Somatic Drama in Russia, examines how post-Soviet theatre reacts to the Russian theatrical past, departing from it but not erasing it in its resystemization in the contemporary landscape. She received a Fulbright to produce the first documentation of Anatoly Vasiliev’s speech technique. She directed a production of her..., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 116-131 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TDR/The Drama Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1054-2043 • E-ISSN: 1531-4715 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/dram_a_00527 |
| OpenAlex | W2282517812 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
The history of the Russian stage traces the importance of objects in storytelling back to an earlier art: plastika, a stylized acting technique that “speaks” spatially with objects. In Russian New Drama, objects enter the stage as supplements to the hero, who survives the disintegration of the Soviet Union as a shell-of-the-self. As extensions of the hero, the hitherto lifeless things begin “to act” and tell their own story
Accommodation · Aesthetics · Art · Drama · Economics · HERO · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Soviet union · Storytelling · Stylized fact · Visual arts · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |