Comparative Study of aspect and Method of two directors about east Theater. Vsevolod Meyerhold, Edward Henry Gorden Craig

In This paper in addition to showing the characteristics of oriental styles and performance tricks, The shared major parts of them are categorized and introduced. Then we discuss how the two prominent theater director and theoretician in the first half of the twentieth century, Vsevolod Meyerhold and Edward Gordon Craig, have benefited from the oriental theater. In This article which is a descriptive - analytic study and use library resources, these main questions will be answered that how Meyerhold and Craig have benefited from forms and practices of oriental theatre specially from Stylization aspects of it. And what is the results of Comparing these two theorists’s approach to oriental theater? It is mentioned in the conclusion part of the paper that for Meyerhold, the Principles and methods of stylization, and emphasis on the actors physical education are more important. This reflects in the Meyerhold’s style of Biomechanics. But Craig pays attention to east to get rid of the realism and to regenerate ancient theater principles. for Craig The contracts of oriental theater because of their mystical and symbolic nature, provide an appropriate field for anti-realism. also the oriental theater in his opinions, is more reflected in the The stage design and in setting the audiovisual space of drama.