For the first time in Russia, articles, performances, interviews, letters of our outstanding compatriot – director, actor and scenographer Georges (George) Pitoev (1884-1939), whose creative life after 1914 proceeded in Switzerland, and then in France are published. It is he, Pitoev and his wife Lyudmila, recognized as the greatest actress of his time, opened the West of Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Blok, Gorky, Andreev (usually in his own translations) and embodied the plays of different countries and eras on the stage: from Sophocles and Seneca to Shakespeare and Goldoni, from Musset and Merim to Koctele, Claim, Claim O’nil and many others.
Thanks to Pitoev’s performances in France, Ibsen, Piranello, Strindberg, Show, Wilde have gained wide popularity …
During his short life, Pitoev set and designed more than two hundred of plays of more than a hundred authors and played the same number of roles.
The texts published in this book open the extraordinary personality of the Russian artist, undividedly devoted to the theater (Jean Coctele called him “bag …
Author
Pitoev Georges
Translator
Popova Natalya Ivanovna, Popov Igor
Publisher
By the way, 2007
Genre
Notes, articles, interviews, essays, letters, essays
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