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Blue Blouse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2021

František Deák
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In many ways, the theatre of the Blue Blouse (Sinaiaia Bluza) was typical of Russian performance in the post-Revolutionary period. Using whatever materials were available, it attempted to create a new type of performance. Overtly political, it employed avantgarde as well as popular techniques. Energetically (and successfully) striving to reach a mass audience, it was created by both theatrical specialists and previously untrained personnel. Socially, if not artistically, Blue Blouse could almost be considered a “movement”: At its height, it probably involved more than 100,000 people. Before it was officially disbanded in 1928, the Blue Blouse had achieved an international reputation and was being emulated in other countries. Today it is almost forgotten.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Drama Review , Volume 17 , Issue 1: Russian Issue , March 1973 , pp. 35 - 46
Copyright
Copyright © 1973 The Drama Review

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Footnotes

The title page photograph is of the final moment of an oratorium. All photographs in this article were taken from Blue Blouse magazines, courtesy Harvard University Library.