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From Fact to Farce The Reality Behind Bulgakov's Black Snow

Kahoa, Erin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1447719301

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2015, Master of Arts, University of Akron, Theatre Arts.
The achievements of the Moscow Art Theatre, and, more specifically, Konstantin Stanislavski, are known throughout the theatrical world. The path to these achievements was a long and hard one. What started as a near perfect collaboration between two visionaries quickly became a battle of wills and intentions. Twenty-five years after its inception, the Art Theatre was desperate for a new voice, and it found one in a struggling writer. Mikhail Bulgakov’s experience with the Art Theatre followed almost the exact same path as the theatre itself. However, the partnership soon became an exercise in mutual frustration. Artistic divisions and governmental censorship proved to be a larger challenge than the author could handle. Seemingly bereft of a future in the theatre, Bulgakov began to translate his real life experiences into a novel. In Black Snow, Bulgakov created a satirical version of Stanislavski and the Art Theatre where both are the subject of barbs, inside jokes, and, ultimately, high admiration. Black Snow also offers a unique description of the life of a Russian playwright during the early 20th century. Although the novel, as a whole, is comical, a careful study of the anecdotes and situations it contains, when compared to the actual historical events from which they were drawn, can provide keys to understanding Bulgakov’s true opinion of his struggle as a playwright, the Art Theatre, and Stanislavski.
Slowiak James (Committee Chair)
56 p.
Theater; Theater History; Theater Studies

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  • Kahoa, E. (2015). From Fact to Farce The Reality Behind Bulgakov's Black Snow [Master's thesis, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1447719301

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kahoa, Erin. From Fact to Farce The Reality Behind Bulgakov's Black Snow. 2015. University of Akron, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1447719301.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kahoa, Erin. "From Fact to Farce The Reality Behind Bulgakov's Black Snow." Master's thesis, University of Akron, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1447719301

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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