メイエルホリド劇場付属科学的研究工房の活動

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In the 1930s, a scientific research laboratory was affiliated with the Theatre of Meyerhold, in which many young theatre directors such as L. Varpakhovsky, A. Gladkov, and Seki Sano participated. Laboratory personnel actively worked to study ‘theory and practice in theatre’ and systematise and record the ‘direction of Meyerhold’ by creating ‘scores’. In other words, they intended to research not only performance, but also direction. According to Varpakhovsky, the laboratory was established as a venue for accumulating and handing down knowledge and experience through these scores. Participants analysed the rhythm or tempo of actors' movements and speech and the miseen-scène for each act, and then tried to fix these elements visually in a score to work out direction collaboratively between the director and actors. At the same time, they considered more than just stage direction. They researched the reaction of the audience in each scene and made a ‘score of the audience’, an element that could be included in the overall score. The scores were developed at the laboratory with the aim of recording theatrical direction that reflected the thoughts of Meyerhold, who divided performance (which he regarded as ‘music’) into elements and recomposed them, even extending the frame of performance to include the audience.