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(1990) Russian theatre in the age of modernism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Down with the foxtrot!
concepts of satire in the Soviet theatre of the 1920s
J. A. E. Curtis
pp. 219-235
The first anniversary in 1918 of the October Revolution was the occasion for the performance in Petrograd of what is generally held to be the earliest substantial post-Revolutionary satirical work, Mayakovsky's anti-religious pageant Mystery-Bouffe ("Misteriyabuff"). But such innovative epic undertakings, like the new outdoor spectacles for mass audiences, were to have little significant impact on theatrical developments during the mid-1920s period of the New Economic Policy (NEP), not least because of the financial and organisational difficulties these productions presented. Instead, smaller-scale events — such as Mayakovsky himself would also contribute to — became the real focus for satirical work during most of the 1920s.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-20749-7_10
Full citation:
Curtis, J. A. (1990)., Down with the foxtrot!: concepts of satire in the Soviet theatre of the 1920s, in R. Russell & A. Barratt (eds.), Russian theatre in the age of modernism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 219-235.
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