Montage of Attractions

For Enough Stupidity in Every Wiseman

Bibliographic Data

ID8918671
AuthorsSergei Eisenstein (corresponding author)
TranslatorsDaniel Gerould
Year1974
Volume18
Issue1
Pages77-85
Publication date1974-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Drama Review TDR (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-5962 • E-ISSN: 2326-2060
PublisherThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/1144865
OpenAlexW2797683803
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Just a few words. The theatrical program of the Proletkult does not involve the “utilization of the values of the past” or the “invention of new forms of theatre” but the abolition of the very institution of the theatre as such, replacing it with a showplace for achievements in the theatre or with an instrument for raising the standard of training of the masses in their day-to-day life. The real task of the scientific section of the Proletkult in the field of the theatre is to organize theatre studios and to work out a scientific system for raising this standard. All the rest that is being done is “provisional”; to fulfill secondary, not basic, aims of the Proletkult. The “provisional” runs along two lines under the general heading of revolutionary content. 1. Representational-narrative theatre (static, real-life—the right wing): the Proletkult's Zori, Lena, and a series of not fully realized productions of the same type—this being the direction of the former Workers Theatre with the Central Committee of Proletkult

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