Nikolay Okhlopkov
Actor, Film actor
1900 – 1967
Who was Nikolay Okhlopkov?
Nikolay Pavlovich Okhlopkov was a Soviet actor and theatre director who patterned his work after Meyerhold.
He was born in Irkutsk, Siberia and started his acting career there in 1918. Since 1930, he directed the Realistic Theatre in Moscow, although his directing style was hardly realistic: he was the first to place spectators on the stage around the actors, in order to restore intimacy between the audience and the company. In 1938, his theatre was closed and he moved to the Vakhtangov Theatre. In 1943 he established the Mayakovsky Theatre, which continues his traditions to this day. Okhlopkov was awarded the Stalin Prize and four USSR State Prizes. He also directed a production of Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1954, the first time this play was staged there since World War II.
Okhlopkov died in Moscow in 1967.
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- Born
- May 15, 1900
Irkutsk - Also known as
- Nikolai Pavlovich Okhlopkov
- Ethnicity
- Russian
- Nationality
- Russian Empire
- Soviet Union
- Profession
- Education
- Soviet State Experimental Workshops
- Died
- Jan 8, 1967
Russia
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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