Performing Chekhov

Performing Chekhov is a unique guide to Chekhov's plays in performance. Drawing on extensive interviews with actors, directors, and designers, it offers in-depth case studies of a number of significant, and often controversial productions of Chekhov's plays. It focuses on the work of key directors in Russia, America and England, including: * Stanislavski * Vakhtangov * Yuri Lyubimov * The Moscow Art Theatre * Lee Strasberg * The Wooster Group * Jonathan Miller * Mike Alfreds Performing Chekhov will be indispensable to students, teachers and theatre practitioners, interested not only in Chekhov, but in the history of the modern stage. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of plates......Page 10 Preface......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 'The theatre of mood': the Moscow Art Theatre......Page 24 'Stanislavski has ruined my play ... '......Page 35 'The line of intuition and feeling': Chekhov and the Stanislavski 'system'......Page 60 Vakhtangov and Meyerhold......Page 80 Efros and Lyubimov......Page 100 Lee Strasberg: truth in acting......Page 120 Andrei Serban: upstaging the playwright?......Page 141 The Wooster Group: Brace Up!......Page 159 Theodore Komisarjevsky......Page 174 Jonathan Miller......Page 186 Mike Alfreds......Page 201 Conclusion......Page 224 Notes......Page 228 References......Page 257 Index of Chekhov's works: titles and characters......Page 264 Index of names, places and topics......Page 267 Performing Chekhov is a unique and remarkably comprehensive guide to Chekhov's plays in performance. Drawing on extensive interviews with actors, directors and designers, it offers in-depth case studies of a number of significant and often controversial productions of Chekhov's plays. It focuses on the work of key directors in Russia, America and England and reflects a number of significant and on-going debates, not only about Chekhov's work, but about very nature of acting and performance. Drawing on interviews with actors, directors and designers, this work offers in-depth case studies of a number of significant, and often controversial productions of Chekhov's plays David Allen. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [244]-250) And Indexes.