Experiment No. 12

An Intimate Gathering: Russian Cabaret at Home and Abroad

Memoirs and Contemporary Accounts of Variety Theater 1909-1935

By Mark Konecny

The twelfth volume of Experiment (Fall, 2006) is devoted to the Russian cabaret through documentary evidence.

• Notes to the Reader
  
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Variety Theaters, Dancing Girls and the Gypsy Romance
  • Documents
    
    • Globetrotter, “Cafe-Chantant in Odessa,” St. Petersburg, 1910
      
    • Vladimir Finiti, “My Wanderings through the Summer Edens,” St. Petersburg, 1910
      
    • Georgii V. (Georgii Viatkin), “The Outdoor Stage and Theater of Aquarium,” St. Petersburg, 1910
      
    • N. Negorev (Aleksander Kugel’), “The Theater of Miniatures,” St. Petersburg, 1908
      
    • Aleksandr Rostislavov, “On Staging Cabaret Performances,” St. Petersburg, 1908
• Chapter 2 Actors, Poets and Writers on Stage and in the Audience- The Esthetics of the Russian Intimate Theater
  • Documents
    • Valentina Verigina, “The Theater in Terioki,” Leningrad, 1974
      
    • Aleksandr Deich, “The Crooked Mirror and Vampuka,” Moscow, 1966
      
    • Lolo (Leonid Munshtein), “At the ‘Cabbage Party’ at MKhAT,” Moscow, 1911
      
    • Anonymous, “The Cabaret Chauve Souris,” Moscow, 1914
      
    • L. (Leonid Munshtein), “Chauve Souris,” Moscow, 1911
• Chapter 3  Performance Writ Small- The Body on Stage.
  • Documents
• Anonymous, “The Art of Polyphonic Declamation,” Moscow, 1916
  
• Ivan Ignat’ev, “Ol’ga Gzovskaia,” St. Petersburg, 1912
  
• Aleksandr Izmailov, “Nocturnal Dances,” St. Petersburg, 1910
  
• Homo Novus, “The Fiftieth Anniversary of Koz’ma Prutkov,” St. Petersburg, 1913
• Chapter 4 Russian Cabaret In Exile
  • Documents
    • Baian (Iosif Kolyshko), Russian Art in Foreign Countries, Berlin, 1922
      
    • Jascha Juschny and Karl Brach, “Friends of the Blue Bird,” Berlin, 1921
      
    • H, Khan-Manoukoff, “The Art of Singing in the Cabaret,” Paris, 1930
      
    • Anonymous, “Clown,” New York, 1927.
      
    • Nikita Balieff, “Dreams of Russia or the Life of a Gambler,” New York, (early 1930s)
      
    • Gilbert Seldes, “The Damned Effrontery of the Two-a –Day,” New York, 1924
      
    • Will Rogers, “Meeting with Nikita Balieff,” New York, 192 
• Appendix  Plays, Sketches, and Monologues from the Russian Cabaret
  • Vladimir Lebedev, Modernist v provintsii. Monolog,Moscow, 1909 (Literaturno-khudozhestvennyi kruzhok)
    
  • Nikolai Evreinov, Pantomima St. Petersburg, 1913 (Chauve Souris)
    
  • Nedotykomka, Otryvok iz dramy futurista, St. Petersburg, 1912 (not performed)
    
  • Boris Geier, Khameleony, St. Petersburg, 1912 (Crooked Mirror)
    
  • Boris Geier, Den’gi, Petrograd, 1914 (Crooked Mirror)
    
  • Ivan Zhardskii, Kabare Futuristov, Moscow, 1914 (not performed)
    
  • Nikolai Shebuev, Van’ka –Vstan’ka, Moscow, 1911 (Chauve Souris)
    
  • Mikhail Kuzmin Alisa, kotoraia boialas’ myshei, Moscow, 1916 (Chauve Souris)
    
  • Iurii Morfessi, Ia pominiu val’sa zvuk prelestni, Moscow, 1916 (Chauve Souris)
    
  • Marina Tsvetaeva, Chervonnyi valet, Moscow, 1918 (Chauve Souris)
    
  • Nikita Balieff, Monologue, New York, 1920s (Chauve Souris)
    
  • Nikita Balieff and Gabriel Toyne, Blockheads in Love, New York, 1920s (Chauve Souris)
• Selected Bibliography
  
• Index of Names
  
• Illustrations (on an accompanying disk)