Meyerhold and Theatre of the Future

The new issue of the journal includes articles based on the materials presented at the international scientific conference Meyerhold. Theatre of the Future, held at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts — GITIS under the active support of the State Institute for Art Studies. Meyerhold and GITIS — a great man and the oldest theatre institute. They are connected by history itself: Meyerhold graduated from the Music and Drama School at the Moscow Philharmonic Community. It was that famous course that inspired Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko to think and dream about a new theatre. Both Olga Knipper and Vsevolod Meyerhold were in this graduating course. Right after the graduation, the card was sent to Konstantin Sergeyevich Alekseev-Stanislavsky with a suggestion to meet. And after working with him, Meyerhold realized the need for professional education for theatre directors, which he himself lacked. His directing school was inside the Moscow Art Theatre and then followed the decades of independent search. And when Meyerhold realized the need for a systematic education of theatre directors, he came to GITIS to teach the creators of future theatre there.