Meeting About Laughter

First Published in 1995. A Meeting About Laughteris a collection of sketches, interludes and theatrical parodies by Nikolai Erdman, Vladimir Mass and others. Translated from the Russian Theatre Archive by John Freedman, Harvard University. Erdman is best known as the author of The Warrantand The Suicide, both written for Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1920s. Also including the transcript of a startling discussion of The Suicideat the Vakhtangov Theatre in 1930 and the only surviving fragments of Erdman's third play The Hypnotist.