2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Transborder of Russian Theatre methods and Modernization of Theatre

Research Project

Project/Area Number	18520267
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Literatures/Literary theories in other countries and areas
Research Institution	Kobe University
Principal Investigator	TATEOKA Kumi Kobe University, 大学院・国際文化学研究科, 准教授 (60324894)
Project Period (FY)	2006 – 2009
Keywords	ロシア演劇 / 越境 / ジョルジュ・ピトエフ / フョードル・コミッサルジェフスキー / 俳優術
Research Abstract	Acting methods of psychological realism and Avant-Garde theater in early 20th century Russia were transmitted to Europe and America by emigrant actors. These methods have influenced and are still influencing the theatres and cinemas of various countries all over the world, including Broadway and Hollywood. It is important to notice that the initial influences of the Russian emigrants have been interpreted in different ways and resulted in the quite different development of the theaters of various countries, each of which is now faced with the wave of globalization in its own way. To trace "the Russian influence" is, in a sense, to konow the very process of the development of the world theater and cinema of 20th century.