"Mike Davidow, an American Marxist theatrical reviewer, tells of the leading theater companies of the U.S.S.R. and gives his impressions of stage productions, rehearsals, and talks with producers, actors, and other theater people." The previous sentence, quoted from the dw blurb, continues along doctrinal lines: "He convincingly refutes the attempts of the bourgeois press to present Soviet theater as dreary monotony incarnate, and counters these hostile contrivings by showing what it is really like." . Fine .
Keywords: THEATER; STAGE; PERFORMING ARTS; RUSSIA; SOVIET UNION; HISTORY; COMMUNIST PARTY; PEOPLE'S THEATER; MARXIST; U.S.S.R.; THEATRE; MIKE DAVIDOW.