The Routledge companion to Michael Chekhov / edited by Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu and Yana Meerzon.
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TextSeries: Routledge companionsPublisher: London : Routledge, 2018Description: xxi, 433 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138224810 (pbk.) :Other title: Companion to Michael Chekhov | Michael ChekhovSubject(s): Chekhov, Michael, 1891-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation | Acting | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 792'.028'092 Summary: 'The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov' brings together Chekhov specialists from around the world - theatre practitioners, theorists, historians and archivists - to provide an astonishingly comprehensive assessment of his life, work and legacy. This volume aims to connect East and West; theatre theory and practice. It reconsiders the history of Chekhov's acting method, directing and pedagogy, using the archival documents found across the globe: in Russia, England, America, Germany, Lithuania and Switzerland. It presents Chekhov's legacy and ideas in the framework of interdisciplinary theatre practices and theories, as well as at the crossroads of cultures, in the context of his forays into such areas as Western mime and Asian cosmology.
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Originally published: 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov' brings together Chekhov specialists from around the world - theatre practitioners, theorists, historians and archivists - to provide an astonishingly comprehensive assessment of his life, work and legacy. This volume aims to connect East and West; theatre theory and practice. It reconsiders the history of Chekhov's acting method, directing and pedagogy, using the archival documents found across the globe: in Russia, England, America, Germany, Lithuania and Switzerland. It presents Chekhov's legacy and ideas in the framework of interdisciplinary theatre practices and theories, as well as at the crossroads of cultures, in the context of his forays into such areas as Western mime and Asian cosmology.
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