Gas (written in 1919 and published in 1920) by Georg Kaiser and produced at the Boloshoi Drama Theater, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1922

A scene from Gas (written in 1919 and published in 1920) by the German playwright Georg Kaiser and produced at the Boloshoi Drama Theater, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1922.

The Death of Tarelkin written by Aleksander Sukhova Kobylin under the direction of Vsevolod Meyerhold at the Meyerhold Theatre in 1922

A scene from The Death of Tarelkin written by the  Russian playwright Aleksander Sukhova Kobylin (1817 - 1903) under the direction of Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874 - 1940) at the Meyerhold Theatre with the “meat mincer” setting designed by Varvara Stepanova in 1922.

set pieces designed to enable vigorous physical limitation

Costume designs by Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958) for 'The Death of Tarelkin' 1922

Costume designs by Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958) for 'The Death of Tarelkin' 1922

Costume designs by Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958) for 'The Death of Tarelkin' 1922 

Roza i Krest (The Rose and the Cross 1913) written by Aleksandr Blok and produced in Prague around 1922

      A scene from Roza i Krest (The Rose and the Cross, based on a medieval French legend, 1912) written by the Russian playwright Aleksandr Blok (1880 - 1921) and produced in Prague, Czech, around 1922. For its premiere it went through more than 200 rehearsals, but it was not staged.

He Who Gets Slapped (1915) written by Leonid N. Andreyev and produced at the Modern Theatre in Vienna around 1920

     A scene from He Who Gets Slapped (Der Mann, der die Ohrfeigen bekam, 4-act-play, 1915) written by the Russian playwright Leonid N. Andreyev (1871 - 1919) and produced at the Modern Theatre in Vienna around 1920. This play was first staged in Russia in 1916, and in America in 1922.

Le Cocu Magnifique (1921) written by Fernand Crommelynck, and directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold with a stage design by Lyubov Popova in 1922

A scene from Le Cocu Magnifique (published in 1921) written by the  Belgian playwright Fernand Crommelynck (1886 - 1970), and directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold (Russian theater director 1874 - 1940) with a stage designed by Lyubov Popova (Russian female avant-garde artist 1889 - 1924) in 1922.

This is the scene of 1828 production.

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Trommeln in der Nacht (1919) written by Bertolt Brecht at the Kammerspielen, Munich with Erwin Faber (Mitte) als Andreas Kragler, in 1922

A scene from Trommeln in der Nacht (1919) written by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) at the Kammerspielen, Munich, with Erwin Faber (Mitte) as Andreas Kragler, in 1922.

The Dawn written by Vladimir Dmitriev and produced at the Meyerhold Theatre (RSFSR First Theatre), Moscow, under the direction of Meyerhold in 1922

A scene from The (Red) Dawn written by the Russian playwright Vladimir Dmitriev (developer of a system of actor training known as biomechanics, 1874 - 1940) and produced under the direction of Meyerhold at the Meyerhold Theatre (RSFSR First Theatre), Moscow, in 1922.

1922 russian meyerhold s production of emile verhaeven s the dawn also known as the red dawn