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LABORATORY THEATRE AND THE WORK OF THE STAGE DIRECTOR R.V. BOLESLAVSKY 1920–1930

Kovalev E.S. 1
1 Tula State Pedagogical University by Leo Tolstoy. Russia
The article is about the birth of the American creative theatre through the introduction and establishment of Russian theatrical traditions. It shows the fundamental principles of the Theatre Laboratory and its main program. The article presents the materials confirming the fact that Laboratory Theatre was the first attempt in American theatre to organize a permanent creative team. This unique school-theater became the place where the American students were first taught of acting technique. During the seven years of «Lab» it was visited by about five hundred students, some of them studied for two or three years, the others took lessons for a few months, and the dissemination of Stanislavsky’s ideas in America owes a lot to the activity of «Lab» follow up students.