Item #484 [LESSER KNOWN MOSCOW EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE] 5 let raboty Moskovskogo teatra yunogo zritelia. 1927-1932 [i.e. Five Years of Moscow Young Spectator’s Theatre. 1927-1932].
[LESSER KNOWN MOSCOW EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE] 5 let raboty Moskovskogo teatra yunogo zritelia. 1927-1932 [i.e. Five Years of Moscow Young Spectator’s Theatre. 1927-1932].
[LESSER KNOWN MOSCOW EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE] 5 let raboty Moskovskogo teatra yunogo zritelia. 1927-1932 [i.e. Five Years of Moscow Young Spectator’s Theatre. 1927-1932].
[LESSER KNOWN MOSCOW EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE] 5 let raboty Moskovskogo teatra yunogo zritelia. 1927-1932 [i.e. Five Years of Moscow Young Spectator’s Theatre. 1927-1932].

[LESSER KNOWN MOSCOW EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE] 5 let raboty Moskovskogo teatra yunogo zritelia. 1927-1932 [i.e. Five Years of Moscow Young Spectator’s Theatre. 1927-1932].

Moscow: Izd-vo Mosoblispolkoma, 1933. Item #484

38, [2] pp.: ill. 21x15 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Very good. Two small tears of the spine, light browning of the first and last pages from the covers. Inscribed by S.A. Auslender to Y.M. Slonov («In memory of hard and happy years of the first five years of MTYuZ»).

First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Very rare.

Moscow Young Spectator’s Theatre (MTYuZ) was founded in 1926 by a small group of acting youth under the leadership of O.V. Rudakova (not to confuse with the first theatre for children and youth founded in 1920 under the same name, TYuZ was a standard name for such theatres across the Soviet Union). MTYuZ was a mobile theatre company which staged productions in worker’s clubs, schools, squares. Its work was dedicated to bringing theatre to children of working suburbs (while two other Moscow children’s theatre were stationary and mostly attended by people living in the centre). Another difference was the repertoire. MTYuZ was focused on bringing political agenda and other social issues to children’s attention. They also developed a new form of a play - a play-game where spectators became its participants. Later this form was adopted in many other children’s theatres. The theatre also actively used smaller forms for their performances because they toured even on the farthest outskirts where there were no stages or any equipment. In the first year the theatre gave 132 performances, mostly in Moscow suburbs. Third year was marked by 590 shows and establishment of the second collective. They played for different audiences, even for blind, deaf and difficult children. Theatre also created ‘pioneer asset’ - a form of exchange in which children help theatre with creative work and theatre stuff help them with their performing initiatives.

This book is an account of first five years of the theatre: list of productions, actors, directors and composers, places theatre went to, educational and pedological work, The text is accompanied by rare photographs of the theatre stuff, actors, performances, and even transporting wagon.

In 1932 the theatre got its own place in the centre of Moscow.

Worldcat locates an only copy at Harvard.

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