PUBLISHING ACTIVITIES OF KHARKIV RUSSIAN DRAMA STATE THEATER (1933-1941)
Journal Title: Вісник Одеського національного університету. Бібліотекознавство, бібліографознавство, книгознавство - Year 2014, Vol 19, Issue 2
Abstract
Publishing activities of theaters in the 1920s and 1930s have not been properly studied yet by theater experts and bibliologist. Hence an object of this research is the publishing activities of Kharkiv Russian Drama State Theater while the article’s subject are books and booklets published by the theater and now being kept in various libraries of Kharkiv. The purpose of this article is to characterize typology, subject area, and graphic design of the theater’s publications. The theater, apart from its own stage productions, was expected to provide methodological assistance to amateur theater groups, to maintain contacts with various strata of theater-goers, and train young actors and other professionals. All these activities were reflected on many publications: advertising and informational, popular scientific, analytical, methodological. Advertising booklets were regularly published for the theater guest performances in other cities of USSR. Stage productions of the most significant classical plays (N. Gogol’s Inspector-General or The Cherry Orchard by A. Chekhov) were preceded with scholarly and popular scientific publications whose purpose was to prepare the audience to the adequate perception of the play in question. The book Creational Activities in a Theater published in 1937 was devoted to problems of studying the heritage of the prominent theatrical figures of the past as well as their methods of bringing up new generation of actors. Collection of articles ’The Spring Sowing’ (1934) is as a bright example of guiding amateur theaters. Towards the end of the analyzed period, on the eve of WWII, the government funding of theaters was partly cut, and Kharkiv Theater had to limit its publications with advertising booklets and performance programs. Still, the surviving items of the theater’s publications allow us to come to the conclusion that its publishing activities, though interrupted by the war, used to be diverse and very interesting. Nowadays, they are an important source of studying the history of theaters in Kharkiv.
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Yu. Yu. Poliakova
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