Theatre in the Solovki Prison Camp

First Published in 1996. The Russian Theatre Archive makes available in English the best avantgarde plays, from the pre-Revolutionary period to the present day. It features monographs on major playwrights and theatre directors, introductions to previously unknown works, and studies of the main artistic groups and periods. Plays are presented in performing edition translations, including (where appropriate) musical scores, and instructions for music and dance. Whenever possible the translated texts will be accompanied by videotapes of performances of plays in the original language. Prison camp theatre is a theme justified by actual life, even though the marriage of such concepts as 'theatre' and 'prison camp' may appear, to the ordinary mind, preposterous. Introduction to the Series; Preface; Part 1 Part One; Chapter 1 From monastery to concentration camp; Chapter 2 The Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp — SLON; Chapter 3 The special purpose press: The Solovetsky Islands and The New Solovki; Chapter 4 Profiles and masques; Part 2 Part Two; Chapter 5 The Theatre of the 1st DePart ment; Chapter 6 The smaller theatres — ‘Trash’ and the group of ‘Our Own’; Chapter 7 The end of the early Solovki; Chapter 8 At the crossroads; Chapter 9 The theatre at Kem; Part 3 Part Three; Chapter 10 The ‘court’ and ‘vulgar’ theatres of the White Sea-Baltic Canal; Chapter 11 Camp theatres and the Central Theatre of the White Sea-Baltic Canal; Chapter 12 The theatre of the late Solovki;