ABSTRACT

Performing Chekhov is a unique guide to Chekhov's plays in performance. It will be indispensable to students, teachers and theatre practitioners interested not only in Chekhov but in the history of the modern stage.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

part I|56 pages

Chekhov and Stanislavski

chapter 1|11 pages

‘The theatre of mood’

The Moscow Art Theatre

chapter 3|18 pages

‘The line of intuition and Feeling’

Chekhov and the Stanislavski ‘system’

part II|39 pages

II Chekhov in Russia

chapter 4|20 pages

Vakhtangov and Meyerhold

chapter 5|17 pages

Efros and Lyubimov

part III|53 pages

Chekhov in America

chapter 6|21 pages

Lee Strasberg

Truth in acting

chapter 7|18 pages

Andrei Serban

Upstaging the playwright?

chapter 8|12 pages

The Wooster Group

Brace Up!

part IV|51 pages

Chekhov in England

chapter 9|12 pages

Theodore Komisarjevsky

chapter 10|15 pages

10 Jonathan Miller

chapter 11|22 pages

Mike Alfreds

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion