Background
TAIROV, Aleksandr was born on June 24, 1885 in Rovno.
TAIROV, Aleksandr was born on June 24, 1885 in Rovno.
1913 graduate Law Faculty, St. Petersburg University.
1905 actor with M. Boroday’s company in Kiev. 1906-1907 actor, Komissarzhevskaya Theater, St. Petersburg. Until 1913 acted at theaters in St. Petersburg, Riga and Simbirsk.
Spent three years with P.P. Gaydeburov’s Mobile Theater, where he took up stage directing. 1913 stage director, Free Theater, Moscow. 1914 co-founder, Moscow Chamber Theater.
1914-1949 director, above theater. 1917 first chairman, Moscow Artistes’ Union. 1919-1936 Presidium member, Central Committee, Art Workers’ Union.
From 1944 vice-president, Theater Section, All-Union Social for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. Claimed to be the founder of what he called “neo-realism” in stagecraft, opposed to naturalism and the principles of Meyerhold’s “conditioned” theater. Productions: “Hamlet” (1908).
Chekhov’s Dyadya Vanya (Uncle Vanya) (1908). “The Marriage of Figaro” (1915). Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” (1917).
Lothar’s “King Harlequin” (1917). Scribe’s “Adrienne Lccouvr£re” (1919). Claudel’s “Benediction” (1920).
Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet" (1921). Racine’s “Phedre” (1922). Ostrovskiy’s Groza (The Storm) (1924).
O’Neill’s “The Hairy Ape”) (1926). Operetta “Sirocco” )1928). “Egyptian Nights” (1934).
Comic opera Bogatyri (The Epic Warriors), after Dem’yan Bednyy (1936). "Madame Bauvary” after Flaubert (1940). Gorky’s Starik (The Old Man) (1946).
U sten Leningrada (At the Walls of Leningrad) (1945). Grin's Veter s yuga (The Wind from the South) (1948), etc.