All books in the Routledge Performance Practitioners series are carefully designed to enable the reader to understand the work of a key practitioner. They provide the first step towards critical understanding and a springboard for further study for students on twentieth century, contemporary theatre and theatre history courses. This is the first book to combine
a biographical introduction to Meyerhold's lifea clear explanation of his theoretical writingsan analysis of his masterpiece production 'Revisor, or The Government Inspector'a comprehensive and useable description of the 'biomechanical' exercises he developed for training the actor.