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[CHILDREN AND THEATRE IN 1920S] Deti i teatr: Sbornik statei [i.e. Children and Theatre: Collection of Articles]

Leningrad: 1925. Item #349

133, [1], pp., [2] ads. 20,5x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. General light wear, restoration of the spine and margins of the wrappers.

Rare. One of 5000 copies. Edited and introduction by writer Nadezhda Sergeevna Sher (1890-1976). She gathered such articles: Dramatization in Pre-School Age by M. Markovich, Theatre in School by S. Rozanov, Theatre for Children by herself, About Plays in Children’s Theatre by A. Chumachenko, Puppet Theatre by N. Bartram, Mass Celebration by Gr. Roshal’. The main idea stated in introduction was to fight theatricality because the theatre for the child is primarily a game, a state in which the child is constantly being on the way to growing up and it should stay that way. Some articles suggest scenarios for theatre plays or celebrations or how to arrange them which is very 1920s as it was the time of constant search of new ways of expressing themselves.

Among the authors is famous Nikolai Bartram (1873-1931), who started to collect children’s toys and later opened a very popular Museum of toys in Moscow. Interesting that Sher in 1920s herself didn’t consider profession of an actor appealing or serious enough for her own daughter (so she sent her away from Moscow bohemia).

No paper copies in Worldcat.

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