Eindrücke vom sowjetischen Theater: Amateur- und Studioaufführungen
Impressions of the Soviet Theater: Amateur and Studio Performances

Summary/Abstract: It has been amazing over the last ten years how quickly the number of "amateur theatres" or "small theatres", "studios" or "theater in the foyer", as they are variously called, has increased. Today there are so many of them in Moscow and Leningrad that you could probably catch a performance every night if you skipped professional theater altogether. The movement may have originally started with young theater directors and actors looking for avenues to gain experience and explore new ideas, but in the past two years there has been an increase in the number of professional theater people working part-time, some even full-time, outside of official theater operations are active. The stigma that professionals once attached to anything having to do with "amateur" performance is rapidly disappearing.

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