ABSTRACT
Using one of Chekhov’s most useful tools, Psychological Gesture, Hutchinson’s essay explores ways in which actors can move from an archetypal metaphor to specific character psychology. “Psychological Gesture: Michael Chekhov Exercises on Physicalizing the Objective” introduces ways to access creative impulses and manifest them in performance, and to circumvent the intellect as the actor’s starting point. Hutchinson offers valuable insight to explore character objective through the physical imagination.
