By Marie Christine Autant Mathieu,Yana Meerzon
ISBN-10: 0415710189
ISBN-13: 9780415710183
ISBN-10: 1138224812
ISBN-13: 9781138224810
The Routledge spouse to Michael Chekhov brings jointly Chekhov experts from around the globe - theatre practitioners, theorists, historians and archivists – to supply an astonishingly accomplished evaluate of his existence, paintings and legacy.
This quantity goals to attach East and West; theatre idea and perform. It reconsiders the historical past of Chekhov’s appearing process, directing and pedagogy, utilizing the archival records stumbled on around the globe: in Russia, England, the United States, Germany, Lithuania and Switzerland. It provides Chekhov’s legacy and concepts within the framework of interdisciplinary theatre practices and theories, in addition to on the crossroads of cultures, within the context of his forays into such components as Western mime and Asian cosmology.
This extraordinary significant other, thoughtfully edited by way of top Chekhov students, will turn out worthy to scholars and students of theatre, theatre practitioners and theoreticians, and experts in Slavic and transcultural studies.
Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu is Director of study on the nationwide heart For medical study, and Assistant-Director of Sorbonne-CNRS Institute EUR’ORBEM. She is an historian of theatre and expert in Russian and Soviet theatre.
Yana Meerzon is affiliate Professor within the division of Theatre, college of Ottawa. Her e-book guides contain Adapting Chekhov: The textual content and Its Mutations, co-edited with Professor J. Douglas Clayton, college of Ottawa (Routlegde, 2012).
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