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Abstract

Meyerhold, dubbed “the people’s artist” by the Soviet regime, had a very tumultuous artistic life and made some provocative experiments in an unconventional theatre setting. After cofounding the company Moscow Art Theatre with some well-known colleagues as Stanislavski and Danchenko, he left it, wanting to recover his independence as an actor and stage director. He elaborates his theoretical idea of the "conditional theatre", reconsidering classical plays in an innovative way and rethinking them for the contemporary theatrical context.