Mystery-Bouffe

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Mystery-Bouffe is a revolutionary satirical play by Vladimir Mayakovsky that blends avant-garde theater with political allegory to celebrate the Bolshevik Revolution.

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instanceOf play
revolutionary play
theatrical work
author Vladimir Mayakovsky NERFINISHED
commemorates October Revolution NERFINISHED
commissionedFor first anniversary of the October Revolution
countryOfOrigin Russia
directorOfFirstProduction Vsevolod Meyerhold NERFINISHED
dramaticForm mass spectacle
mystery play parody
featuresCharacters the Clean
the Unclean NERFINISHED
firstPerformanceCountry Soviet Russia NERFINISHED
firstPerformanceDate 7 November 1918
firstPerformanceLocation Moscow NERFINISHED
firstPerformanceTheatre Meyerhold Theatre NERFINISHED
genre avant-garde theatre
political theatre
satire
hasAdaptation later Soviet stage revivals
hasPublicationForm printed play text
historicalContext early Soviet period
ideology communism
influencedBy Marxism
Russian Futurist poetry
languageRegister colloquial
propagandistic
movement Futurism NERFINISHED
Russian avant-garde NERFINISHED
notableFor fusion of avant-garde aesthetics with Bolshevik propaganda
notableProductionElement constructivist stage design
originalLanguage Russian
parodies religious mystery plays
partOf Soviet revolutionary culture
politicalAlignment pro-Bolshevik
setting allegorical world divided into the Clean and the Unclean
style expressionist
futurist
grotesque
subjectMatter Bolshevik Revolution NERFINISHED
class struggle
political allegory
socialism
theme creation of a new socialist world
destruction of the old world
triumph of the proletariat
writer Vladimir Mayakovsky NERFINISHED

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Vladimir Mayakovsky notableWork Mystery-Bouffe