O inspector geral meyerhold biography

Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (German: Karl Kazimir Theodor Meyerhold) (1874 – 1940) was a Russian theatrical producer, director, and actor whose provocative experiments in unconventional theater made him one of the seminal forces in modern theater.

Meyerhold, like Constantin Stanislavski and Lee Strasberg, helped to redefine modern theater by employing new methods of acting that were more in keeping with the changing trends in drama that were initiated by Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, and Eugene O'Neill.

The realism of the modern drama, focusing on the struggles of man in the urban setting, required a different method of presentation. Meyerhold used one based on the system of biomechanics.

Life and work

Meyerhold was born in Penza on January 28 (February 10), 1874 into the family of a Russian-German wine manufacturer Emil Meyerhold.

After completing school in 1895 he began the study of law at Mosc