1936 Jindřich Honzl Soviet Theatre

HONZL, Jindřich. Sovětské divadlo [Soviet Theatre]. Prague: Pavel Prokop, 1936.

8vo. 76 pp. Original typographic wrappers printed in red and blue, with a striking Constructivist cover featuring stage machinery after Lyubov Popova's designs. VG+ condition, very nicely preserved.

A visually outstanding volume from the influential Monografie SSSR series, edited by Zdeněk Nejedlý, Václav Procházka, Bohumír Šmeral, and Karel Teige. Written by Czech theatre theorist and director Jindřich Honzl, concentrating on the work of Vsevolod Meyerhold and the Constructivist transformation of theatrical production.