Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov (also spelled Evgeny or Eugene;
Russian: Ð•Ð²Ð³ÐµÌ Ð½Ð¸Ð¹ Ð'Ð°Ð³Ñ€Ð°Ñ‚Ð¸Ð¾Ì Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡
Ð'Ð°Ñ…Ñ‚Ð°Ì Ð½Ð³Ð¾Ð²; 13 February 1883 â€" 29 May 1922) was a
Russian-Armenian actor and theatre director who founded the Vakhtangov
Theatre. He was a friend and mentor of Michael Chekhov.Vakhtangov was
born to an Armenian father and a Russian mother in Vladikavkaz,
Northern Ossetia. He was educated at Moscow State University for a
short time and then joined the Moscow Art Theatre in 1911 and rose in
the ranks, so that by 1920 he was in charge of his own theatre studio.
Four years after his death, the studio was named Vakhtangov Theatre in
his honor.Vakhtangov was greatly influenced both by the theatrical
experiments of Vsevolod Meyerhold and the more psychological
techniques of his teachers, Konstantin Stanislavski and Leopold
Sulerzhitsky, and the co-founder of the MAT Vladimir
Nemirovich-Danchenko. His productions incorporated masks, music,
dance, abstract costume, avant-garde sets as well as a detailed
analysis of the texts of plays and the psychological motivations of
its characters. His most notable production was Turandot by Carlo
Gozzi, which has played at the Vakhtangov Theatre ever since 1922 (the
year of his death). Another famous production directed by Vakhtangov
in the same year was S. Ansky's The Dybbuk with the Habimah theater
troupe.On the Actors Studio webpage, Lee Strasberg is quoted as
saying: "If you examine the work of the Stanislavski System as made
use of by Stanislavski, you see one result. If you examine it in the
work of one of his great pupils, Vakhtangov â€" who influenced our
thinking and activity â€" you will see a completely different result.
Vakhtangov's work was skillfully done, his use of the Method even more
brilliant and more imaginative than Stanislavski’s, and yet
Vakhtangov achieved totally different results."
Russian: Ð•Ð²Ð³ÐµÌ Ð½Ð¸Ð¹ Ð'Ð°Ð³Ñ€Ð°Ñ‚Ð¸Ð¾Ì Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡
Ð'Ð°Ñ…Ñ‚Ð°Ì Ð½Ð³Ð¾Ð²; 13 February 1883 â€" 29 May 1922) was a
Russian-Armenian actor and theatre director who founded the Vakhtangov
Theatre. He was a friend and mentor of Michael Chekhov.Vakhtangov was
born to an Armenian father and a Russian mother in Vladikavkaz,
Northern Ossetia. He was educated at Moscow State University for a
short time and then joined the Moscow Art Theatre in 1911 and rose in
the ranks, so that by 1920 he was in charge of his own theatre studio.
Four years after his death, the studio was named Vakhtangov Theatre in
his honor.Vakhtangov was greatly influenced both by the theatrical
experiments of Vsevolod Meyerhold and the more psychological
techniques of his teachers, Konstantin Stanislavski and Leopold
Sulerzhitsky, and the co-founder of the MAT Vladimir
Nemirovich-Danchenko. His productions incorporated masks, music,
dance, abstract costume, avant-garde sets as well as a detailed
analysis of the texts of plays and the psychological motivations of
its characters. His most notable production was Turandot by Carlo
Gozzi, which has played at the Vakhtangov Theatre ever since 1922 (the
year of his death). Another famous production directed by Vakhtangov
in the same year was S. Ansky's The Dybbuk with the Habimah theater
troupe.On the Actors Studio webpage, Lee Strasberg is quoted as
saying: "If you examine the work of the Stanislavski System as made
use of by Stanislavski, you see one result. If you examine it in the
work of one of his great pupils, Vakhtangov â€" who influenced our
thinking and activity â€" you will see a completely different result.
Vakhtangov's work was skillfully done, his use of the Method even more
brilliant and more imaginative than Stanislavski’s, and yet
Vakhtangov achieved totally different results."
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