Meyerhold

/ ˈmaɪəhəʊlt /

noun

1. MeyerholdVsevolod Emilievich1874c. 1940MRussianTHEATRE: theatre director Vsevolod Emilievich, original name Karl Theodor Kasimir . 1874– c. 1940, Russian theatre director, noted for his experimental nonrealistic productions. He was arrested in 1939 and died in custody

Example Sentences

His cousin, Valentin Pluchek, worked in Moscow with the famed Russian dissident director Vsevolod Meyerhold, who was an influence on Brook.

From Los Angeles Times

In 2019 he premiered a new play, “Why?,” about experimental Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold, which Mr. Brook wrote and staged with Estienne.

From Washington Post

Similar sentiments surfaced in Austria, where the social-democratic leader Victor Adler found Wagner a lifelong source of inspiration; and in France, but nowhere was this leftist appropriation more emphatic than in Russia, where Vsevolod Meyerhold and Sergei Eisenstein immersed themselves in Wagner.

From The Guardian

A moment from Meyerhold’s 1926 production of Gogol’s “The Government Inspector” gives us a taste of his aesthetic.

From New York Times

But Meyerhold’s support for the Revolution — he was an enthusiastic Communist Party member and an official in the early Soviet theater bureaucracy — could not protect him from the paranoia and viciousness of Stalinism.

From New York Times