Komisarjevsky, Theodore

Komisarjevsky, Theodore

▪ Russian theatrical producer
Russian  Fyodor Fyodorovich Komissarzhevsky  
born May 23, 1882, Venice, Italy
died April 17, 1954, Darien, Conn., U.S.

      Russian theatrical director and designer, one of the most colourful figures of the European theatre of his time. Of Russian parentage—his father was the opera singer Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky—he immigrated to England in 1919 and lived primarily in the United States after 1939.

      Komisarjevsky studied architecture in Russia and Germany. In 1907 he began directing plays in St. Petersburg at the theatre of his sister, the actress Vera Komissarzhevskaya. Two years later, with Nikolai Evreinov, he founded his own theatre, some of whose productions bore the naturalistic stamp of the director Konstantin Stanislavsky (Stanislavsky, Konstantin Sergeyevich). As a director in the imperial and state theatres in Moscow, Komisarjevsky produced an international repertoire of plays and numerous operas before his move to England in 1919. There he won recognition first as a set designer and later as a producer of Russian and English classics.

      A gifted and innovative designer, Komisarjevsky startled—and sometimes infuriated—the conservative audiences at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, with modernistic treatments of William Shakespeare's plays; his Macbeth (1933) was performed in 20th-century dress against a background of aluminum scenery. The culmination of his work at the Memorial Theatre was his outstanding production of King Lear (1936).

      He was married briefly to the British actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft (Ashcroft, Dame Peggy), who starred in many of his productions. Komisarjevsky wrote on various aspects of stagecraft, including a well-known book about theatrical costume.

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