The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030238285
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

‘Second Wave’ Stage Two: Alla Tarasova (1898–1973) and Olga Pyzhova (1894–1972)

In 1924, Stanislavsky (1999, 136–38), while on tour in the United States, wrote to Nemirovich-Danchenko that two actresses were vitally important for the future of the MAT: Alla Tarasova and Olga Pyzhova. Tarasova accepted the offer, while Pyzhova rejected it: Pyzhova went instead to work at the MAT-2, joining her friends from the First Studio. Tarasova gradually became a star in theatre and film, the People’s Artist of the USSR—the title was introduced in 1936, replacing the earlier title of ‘People’s Artist of the Republic’. (Among the first recipients of the title in 1936 were Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, and Ivan Moskvin.) Tarasova was also awarded the Stalin Prize four times. As for Pyzhova, while she was a success as Mirandolina from The Mistress of the Inn in America, she returned to the MAT-2 only to be fired in 1927, as a member of the opposition to artistic director Mikhail Chekhov. Afterwards, Pyzhova worked at the Theatre of the Revolution, but then retired from theatre entirely and dedicated her life to teaching, becoming in 1939 the first woman in the USSR to be awarded the title of Professor of Acting in any theatre institution.

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