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Nikolai Nikolayevich Evreinov ((ロシア語:Николай Николаевич Евреинов); February 13, 1879 - September 7, 1953) was a Russian director, dramatist and theatre practitioner associated with Russian Symbolism. == Life == The son of a French woman and a Russian engineer, Evreinov developed a keen interest in theatre from an early age, penning his first play at the age of 7. Six years later, he performed in a wandering circus as a clown. He attended a gymnasium in Pskov, before moving to the School of Jurisprudence in Saint Petersburg. It was there that he staged his first full-fledged play, ''The Rehearsal'', followed by an opéra bouffe, ''The Power of Charms'' (1899). Having matriculated from the school in 1901, Evreinov turned his attention to music and studied with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the Moscow Conservatory for a couple of years. In 1907-08 and 1911-12 he was involved in reconstructing the world of medieval plays and those dating from the Spanish Golden Age at the Starinny Theatre ("Old-Fashioned Theatre") in Saint Petersburg. The foremost Russian actress, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, asked him to cast her in the leading role for his version of ''Francesca da Rimini'' (1908). Later that year, Evreinov's production of Oscar Wilde's ''Salomé'' was suppressed on the orders of Nicholas II. Evreinov's association with the Komissarzhevsky family continued for several years. Together with Theodore Komisarjevsky, he staged a number of "harlequinades" and "monodramas" as part of his new project, "The Merry Theatre for Aged Children". His concept of ''monodrama'' was exemplified in ''The Theater of the Soul'', a 1915 production set inside the human breast as the repository of the soul. In 1910, Evreinov quit his job at the Ministry of Railways to take the helm as producer, dramatist, and composer of the False Mirror Theatre in Saint Petersburg. It was there that he staged more than one hundred plays, including fourteen pieces written by himself. His production of ''The Government Inspector'' was a milestone in the history of Russian theatre: each act was staged so as to parody one of the following aesthetics: provincial realist theatres, the Moscow Art Theatre of Constantin Stanislavski, the techniques of Edward Gordon Craig and Max Reinhardt, and slapstick comedy films. In 1922 and 1923 Evreinov visited Berlin and Paris where his plays were produced by the likes of Jacques Copeau and Charles Dullin. He spent the rest of his life in Paris, working with the Opéra Russe, Sorbonne, and Serge Lifar. He prepared a comprehensive monograph tracing the ''History of Russian Theatre'' through the centuries. Many of his later plays have never been staged, including the "anti-Stalinist drama" ''The Steps of Nemesis'', with such characters as Alexei Rykov, Nikolai Bukharin, Genrikh Yagoda, and Nikolai Yezhov. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nikolai Evreinov」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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