Performing Chekhov

By Allen, David

Subjects: Toneelvoorstellingen, Art, Nonfiction, Theater, PERFORMING ARTS, Stage history, Chekhov, anton pavlovich, 1860-1904, Dramatic production, Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures, Languages & Literatures, History & Criticism, Performing Arts

Description: 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.