Meyerhold on Theatre brings together in one volume Vsevolod Meyerhold's most significant writings and utterances, and covers his entire career as a director from 1902 to 1939. It contains a comprehensive selection from all published material, unabridged and translated from the original Russian, updated and supplemented with a critical commentary relating Meyerhold to his period and eye-witness accounts describing all his productions. The book is illustrated with photographs of Meyerhold's designs and productions.

Within this diverse collection of sometimes dense, sometimes lyrical, and always fascinating writings, Meyerhold emerges from this book as a forerunner of such directors as Brecht, Piscator, Planchon and Brook, a relentless enemy of naturalism and a supreme exponent of total theatre whose influence continues to be felt throughout the theatre of today.

This fourth edition features a new introduction by Prof. Jonathan Pitches, which helps to demystify some of the terminology Meyerhold and his associates used, and indicates the fundamental connection between culture and politics represented in his life and art.

Meyerhold on Theatre将Vsevolod Meyerhold最重要的著作和言论汇集在一册，涵盖了他从1902年到1939年的整个导演生涯。它包含了所有已发表材料的全面选择，未作删节并从俄文原文翻译过来，更新并补充了与梅耶荷德有关的批评性评论和描述他所有作品的目击者。书中还附有梅耶荷德设计和制作的照片。

在这本时而密集、时而抒情、时而引人入胜的多样化著作中，梅耶荷德作为布莱希特、皮斯卡托、普朗雄和布鲁克等导演的先驱出现在本书中，他是自然主义的无情敌人，也是全面戏剧的最高代表，其影响在今天的戏剧界依然存在。

这本书的第四版由Jonathan Pitches教授作了新的介绍，这有助于解开梅耶荷德和他的伙伴们所使用的一些术语的神秘面纱，并指出他的生活和艺术中所体现的文化和政治之间的根本联系。