Birgit Beumers. Yury Lyubimov at the Taganka Theatre, 1964-1994. Contemporary Theatre Studies, vol. 21. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997. xviii, 361 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Appendices. Select Bibliography. Index. $126.00, cloth. $42.00, paper.
Birgit Beumers argues that Yury Lyubimov's productions at the Taganka Theatre "are tied not to the system under which they were created, but to the society he lived in and to the audience he played for." This is why her monograph aims to characterize Lyubimov "through his artistic work" rather than dwelling on his disagreements with the Soviet authorities that reached their apogee in 1984, at which time he was dismissed from …
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