Nikolai Okhlopkov

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Nikolay Pavlovich Okhlopkov 15 May 1900 8 January 1967 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 at Moscow in 1967 Description above from the Wikipedia article Nikolay Okhlopkov licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia