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Natalia Gamalova, « L'Antiquité classique : à prendre ou à laisser », La Revue russe, ID : 10.3406/russe.2012.2513
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This paper discusses the place of ancient Greek tragedies in the repertoires of Russian theatres in the period from 1917 to 1927. Immediately after the Russian Revolution, the new regime readily accepts to be compared to Athenian democracy ; the revolutionary zeal implies the Fervour of Aeschylus or the Glory of Pericles. In theatre, ancient tragedies were considered by playwrights and, especially, by directors (Sanin, Radlov, Tairov, Yuriev, Ferdinandov) to be inherent in drama experimentation. This paper critically examines theoretical works by Adrian Piotrovski, as well as his two expressionist plays The Fall of Helen Ley (1923) and The Death of the five {The Army Commander's Death, 1925) as examples of the Ancient Greek theatrical tradition.