Meyerhold at Work

Only now, perhaps, as a dangerous century draws to a strange close, can we begin to recognize the daring and immensity of Meyerhold's achievements. Now, in these late days, their heartbreaking call to continue the struggle haunts us and will not let us rest. Across four decades of social and artistic renewal and continuous experimentation, Meyerhold created a theatre of maximum physical and emotional courage, precision, plasticity, virtuosity, and dimension -- politically sophisticated and mystically charged -- that was intimately bound with the fate of a nation.