Citation

Contemporary Theatre Review 1994; 2(2): 137-139.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994)

DOI

10.1080/10486809408568307

PMID

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Abstract

This is an extract from the transcript of a meeting of the Artistic-Political Council of the Vakhtangov State Theater on 17 September 1930. The following remarks were made about Nikolai Erdman's play The Suicide, shortly after a reading of the play. The complete text of the transcript will be published in an appendix to a A Meeting about Laughter, a collection of sketches, interludes and theatrical parodies by Nikolai Erdman, not previously published in English. A Meeting about Laughter, translated and edited by John Freedman, will appear as a forthcoming volume in the Russian Theatre Archive, published by Harwood Academic Publishers, and edited by John Freedman, Leon Gitelman and Anatoly Smelianksy. © 1994, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

Language: en