Meyerhold ’ s methods of scenic constructivism and circus-style effects were used in his most successful works of the time: Nikolai Erdman's The Mandate, Vladimir Mayakovsky ’ s Mystery-Bouffe, Fernand Crommelynck's The Magnanimous Cuckold, and Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin's Tarelkin's Death.

The actors participating in Meyerhold ’ s productions acted according to the principle of biomechanics ( only distantly related to the present scientific use of the term ), the system of actor training that was later taught in a special school created by Meyerhold.

Where method acting melded the character with the actor's own personal memories to create the character ’ s internal motivation, Meyerhold connected psychological and physiological processes.

In his films, he used actors who worked in Meyerhold ’ s tradition.

The young actor ’ s vividly notional acting style was in total correspondence with the principles of Meyerhold, and so Ilyinsky soon became the central actor of that theatre.

Vsevolod Meyerhold was born Karl Kasimir Theodor Meyerhold in Penza on 28 January o. s.

* February 2 – Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian Theatre Practitioner ( b. 1874 )

* January 28 – Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian Theatre Practitioner ( d. 1940 )

Meyerhold began acting in 1896 as a student of the Moscow Philharmonic Dramatic School under the guidance of Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 made Meyerhold one of the most enthusiastic activists of the new Soviet Theatre.

After returning to Moscow, Meyerhold founded his own theatre in 1920, which was known from 1923 as The Meyerhold Theatre until 1938.

His theatre was closed down in January 1938 ; the ailing Constantin Stanislavski, then the director of an opera theatre now known as Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, invited Meyerhold to lead his company.

* Meyerhold on Theatre, trans.

* Meyerhold Speaks / Meyerhold Rehearses ( Russian Theatre Archive ), by V. Meyerhold, Alexander Gladkov ( ed.

* Meyerhold: A Revolution in Theatre, by Edward Braun, University of Iowa Press, 1998

* The Theatre of Meyerhold: Revolution and the Modern Stage by Edward Braun, 1995

* Moscow Meyerhold Theatre

* The World Turned Upside Down-Adaptation of Marcel Martinet's ' Night ', presented at the Meyerhold Theatre in Moscow on 7 November 1923 ( directed by Meyerhold )

In 1920 Igor Ilyinsky joined the Vsevolod Meyerhold Theatre.

In the Meyerhold Theatre he worked for over ten years.

Later he left the Meyerhold Theatre and had a five years break in film acting.

When Pyriev offered him for the role of Ogurtsov, I just panicked: he was my idol from childhood, the famous actor of the Meyerhold Theatre!

In 1918, Malevich decorated a play, Mystery Bouffe, by Vladimir Mayakovskiy produced by Vsevolod Meyerhold.

In the wake of Alexander Nevskys success, Prokofiev composed his first Soviet opera Semyon Kotko, which was intended to be produced by the director Vsevolod Meyerhold.

However the première of the opera was postponed because Meyerhold was arrested on 20 June 1939 by the NKVD ( Joseph Stalin's Secret Police ), and shot on 2 February 1940.

Eisenstein would then work as a designer for Vsevolod Meyerhold.

* February 2 – Vsevolod Meyerhold is executed in the Soviet Union on charges of treason and espionage.

Vsevolod Meyerhold dressing as Pierrot for his own production of Alexander Blok's Fairground Booth, 1906.

* Barbusse and Vsevolod Meyerhold.

Both Constantin Stanislavski and Vsevolod Meyerhold experimented with symbolist modes of staging in their theatrical endeavors.

Brook's work is also inspired by the theories of experimental theatre of Jerzy Grotowski, Bertolt Brecht, Chris Covics and Vsevolod Meyerhold and by the works of G. I. Gurdjieff, Edward Gordon Craig, and Matila Ghyka.

She helped many aspiring talents and was acquainted with many leading figures of Russian and international culture, such as Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, Boris Pasternak, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Kazimir Malevich, Sergei Paradjanov, Maya Plisetskaya, Rodion Shchedrin, Andrei Voznesensky, Yves St. Laurent and Pablo Picasso.

Lunacharsky protected most of the avant-garde artists such as Vladimir Mayakovsky, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin and Vsevolod Meyerhold.

There, he was influenced by the artistic experiments of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold, as well as the ideological vision of Lenin.

Anton Chekhov | Chekhov reads ( centre ), Constantin Stanislavski | Stanislavski ( to the left of him ) and Vsevolod Meyerhold | Meyerhold ( seated far right ) listen.

Stanislavski played Trigorin, while Vsevolod Meyerhold — the future director and practitioner who Stanislavski on his death-bed declared to be " my sole heir in the theatre "— played Konstantin and Olga Knipper ( Chekhov's future wife ) played Arkadina.

Natives of Penza include Vsevolod Meyerhold, Andreï Makine, Nikolai Ishutin, Aristarkh Lentulov, Ivan Mozzhukhin, and Lavrenty Zagoskin.

Epic theatre () was a theatrical movement arising in the early to mid-20th century from the theories and practice of a number of theatre practitioners, including Erwin Piscator, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold and, most famously, Bertolt Brecht.

The most influential acting teachers, including Richard Boleslavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Michael Chekhov, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Harold Clurman, Robert Lewis, Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen, Ion Cojar and Ivana Chubbuck all traced their pedigrees to Stanislavski, his theories and / or his disciples.

Meyerhold wrote about the play: " What is most amazing about The Government Inspector is that although it contains all the elements of ... plays written before it, although it was constructed according to various established dramatic premises, there can be no doubt — at least for me — that far from being the culmination of a tradition, it is the start of a new one.

Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (; born ) ( 2 February 1940 ) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer.