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SoCultures November 2018
India & Russia
There was a burst of the theatrical activities and new styles at the turn of the 20 th
century. These were the times when the vibrant and ingenious radical changes
were added to the rather conventional functioning of Russian ballet. And the
Alexandrinsky Theater created magic with it. No wonder it exists now for more
than two hundred sixty years. It earlier looked up to the European traditional
models but later embarked upon and established its own full expressions. Its
Russian school of theater!!!
The Alexandrinsky Theater introduced very famous names in theater personalities
and produced some memorable theatrical products associated with dramatists
Nikolai Gogol, Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky, and a very famous story
writer Aton Chekhov.
SOME DISTINCT NAMES IN THE RUSSIAN THEATER
The plays of Anton Chekhov
Chekhov’s plays brought immense depth of psychological aspects in the first
quarter of the century.
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By Osip Braz - [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=258685
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