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Nikolai Evreinov - Works and Theories
Works and Theories
Evreinov argued that the role of theatre was to ape and mimick nature. In his estimation, theatre is everything around us. He pointed out that nature is full of theatrical conventions: desert flowers mimicking the stones; mouse feigning death in order to escape a cat's claws; complicated dances of birds, etc.
He viewed theatre as a universal symbol of existence.
Apology for Theatricality is his most famous essay.
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It was published in 1908. Here Evreinov promoted an underlying aesthetic:
- "To make a theatre of life is the duty of every artist. ... the stage must not borrow so much from life as life borrows from the stage."
The director sought to reinvigorate the theatre (and through it life itself) through the rediscovery of the origin of theatre in play.
He was influenced by the philosophies of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Bergson, and, like Meyerhold, the aesthetics of symbolism and the commedia dell'arte (particularl