New years day at Hunstanton. I threw an old stone. A necklace piece that had been weighing on my mind for some time. Its gone to the sea now. If you look carefully you see my brother, the photographer, has caught the stone mid flight.
Below a student demonstrates Vsevolod Emilovich Meyerhold's solo classical étude “Throwing the Stone,”. The 21st century body lends an absurd weight to the movement that makes it rather comic.
Its rather different back in the days of the Moscow Arts Theatre. There is an expression of a noble truth. He was executed in 1940 by good old Jo Stalin.
Theatre should be full of truth. Not always the truth that exists in the everyday world... something more magnificent perhaps.
