Yevgeny Vakhtangov
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Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov was a Russian actor and theatre director who founded the Vakhtangov Theatre. He was a friend and mentor of Michael Chekhov. He is known for his distinctive style of t
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Carlo Gozzi´s Princess Turandot, performance by Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1922)
Leopold Sulerzhitsky
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Leopold Antonovich Sulerzhitsky was a Russian theatre director, painter and pedagogue of Polish descent. He is associated with the Moscow Art Theatre and the household of Leo Tolstoy. Among his many s
Yevgeny Vakhtangov
…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…
Leopold Sulerzhitsky (or "Suler" as Gorky nicknamed him) in 1910. Suler led the MAT's First Studio and taught the elements of the 'system' to its members.