Bryan Brown is an artist-scholar, currently a Lecturer at the University of Exeter and co-director of visual theatre company ARTEL (American Russian Theatre Ensemble Laboratory). Recent writing includes "Educating the Director", a co-authored, extended chapter on Meyerhold for The Great European Stage Directors Vol. 2.

• List of FiguresTransliteration & Translation AcknowledgementsAbbreviations Glossary Introduction1 An Organisational History2 What’s in a Name 3 Why Russia 4 Retracing the NameThe Prototype5 The Skete The Studio 6 From Study to Studio 7 The Studio in Visual Art: Cobra, a Collective Vitality 8 The Studio in Science: the Copenhagen Spirit9 The Studio in Russian Theatre: 10 Creating a Commune: the First Studio’s Theatre-Obshchina 11 Oases of Curiosity: the Holidays of Slava Polunin 12 A New Camaraderie in Faith: the Theatre Art Studio 13 For the Sake of What: the Studio as Laboratory of Communion The Masterskaya 14 From Workshop to Masterskaya15 The Masterskaya in Visual Art: Rembrandt, the Master as Auteur 16 The Masterskaya in Science: Thomas Edison and the Contradictory Positions of his Invention Factory 17 The Masterskaya in Russian Theatre: 18 The Visionary Authority of Vsevolod Meyerhold 19 I Need Them to Fear Me: Anatoli Vassiliev and the School of Dramatic Art 20 The Ecstasy of Togetherness: the Laboratory of Dmitry Krymov 21 For the Sake of What? The Masterskaya as Laboratory of Authority Conclusion22 The Value of a Theatre Laboratory

Bryan Brown is an artist-scholar, currently a Lecturer at the University of Exeter and co-director of visual theatre company ARTEL (American Russian Theatre Ensemble Laboratory). Recent writing includes "Educating the Director", a co-authored, extended chapter on Meyerhold for The Great European Stage Directors Vol. 2.

• List of FiguresTransliteration & Translation AcknowledgementsAbbreviations Glossary Introduction1 An Organisational History2 What’s in a Name 3 Why Russia 4 Retracing the NameThe Prototype5 The Skete The Studio 6 From Study to Studio 7 The Studio in Visual Art: Cobra, a Collective Vitality 8 The Studio in Science: the Copenhagen Spirit9 The Studio in Russian Theatre: 10 Creating a Commune: the First Studio’s Theatre-Obshchina 11 Oases of Curiosity: the Holidays of Slava Polunin 12 A New Camaraderie in Faith: the Theatre Art Studio 13 For the Sake of What: the Studio as Laboratory of Communion The Masterskaya 14 From Workshop to Masterskaya15 The Masterskaya in Visual Art: Rembrandt, the Master as Auteur 16 The Masterskaya in Science: Thomas Edison and the Contradictory Positions of his Invention Factory 17 The Masterskaya in Russian Theatre: 18 The Visionary Authority of Vsevolod Meyerhold 19 I Need Them to Fear Me: Anatoli Vassiliev and the School of Dramatic Art 20 The Ecstasy of Togetherness: the Laboratory of Dmitry Krymov 21 For the Sake of What? The Masterskaya as Laboratory of Authority Conclusion22 The Value of a Theatre Laboratory

Bryan Brown is an artist-scholar, currently a Lecturer at the University of Exeter and co-director of visual theatre company ARTEL (American Russian Theatre Ensemble Laboratory). Recent writing includes "Educating the Director", a co-authored, extended chapter on Meyerhold for The Great European Stage Directors Vol. 2.

• List of FiguresTransliteration & Translation AcknowledgementsAbbreviations Glossary Introduction1 An Organisational History2 What’s in a Name 3 Why Russia 4 Retracing the NameThe Prototype5 The Skete The Studio 6 From Study to Studio 7 The Studio in Visual Art: Cobra, a Collective Vitality 8 The Studio in Science: the Copenhagen Spirit9 The Studio in Russian Theatre: 10 Creating a Commune: the First Studio’s Theatre-Obshchina 11 Oases of Curiosity: the Holidays of Slava Polunin 12 A New Camaraderie in Faith: the Theatre Art Studio 13 For the Sake of What: the Studio as Laboratory of Communion The Masterskaya 14 From Workshop to Masterskaya15 The Masterskaya in Visual Art: Rembrandt, the Master as Auteur 16 The Masterskaya in Science: Thomas Edison and the Contradictory Positions of his Invention Factory 17 The Masterskaya in Russian Theatre: 18 The Visionary Authority of Vsevolod Meyerhold 19 I Need Them to Fear Me: Anatoli Vassiliev and the School of Dramatic Art 20 The Ecstasy of Togetherness: the Laboratory of Dmitry Krymov 21 For the Sake of What? The Masterskaya as Laboratory of Authority Conclusion22 The Value of a Theatre Laboratory