Edited sentence: *Kleberg, Lars.A production of the play was the most significant of the early theatre work of the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein.A screening of Eisenstein's first film, entitled Glumov's Diary, concluded the performance.Charles Rougle.Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.ISBN 0333568176.ISBN 0500281955.ISBN 0748609733.In celebration of the centennial of Ostrovsky's birth, the production opened on 26 April 1923.It was staged by the First Workers' Theatre of the Prolekult in an ornate mansion, with a cast that included Maxim Shtraukh, Ivan Pyryev, and Grigori Aleksandrov.Kolocotroni, Vassiliki, Jane Goldman, and Olga Taxidou, eds.Lesley Milne.London: Macmillan, 1993.London: Thames and Hudson.Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents.New Directions in Theatre.New York: Abrams.Roxane Permar.Rudnitsky, Konstantin.Russian and Soviet Theatre: Tradition and the Avant-Garde.Theatre as Action: Soviet Russian Avant-Garde Aesthetics.This approach was part of the Russian avant-garde Futurist movement known as "Eccentricism," which sought the "circusisation" of the theatre.Working with the playwright Sergei Tretyakov, Eisenstein transformed Ostrovsky's text into a revue (what he called a "montage of attractions"), which he entitled Wiseman (Mudrets).as Russian and Soviet Theater, 1905-1932