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Act Iii
actor-director collaboration
Anatoly Smeliansky
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Central Children's Theatre
Central Children’s Theatre
Chekhov
Chekhov staging interpretation
Chekhov's Characters
Chekhov’s Characters
Complete Loneliness
Croquet Balls
Directing
Director
Efros
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Holy Men
Home Town
Lenkom Theatre
Malaya Bronnaya Theatre
Mat Production
Moscow Art
performance studies
Peter Nikolaevich
Platform Stage
Rehearsal
Rehearsal Hall
rehearsal process analysis
Russia
Russian theatre history
Soviet
Stanislavsky
Stanislavsky's Production
Stanislavsky’s Production
theatre production methodology
Thunder Storm
Treplev's Play
Treplev’s Play
twentieth-century drama
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780815374510
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jun 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book is an insiders’ account of the groundbreaking Moscow production of Chekhov's The Seagull directed by Anatoly Efros in 1966, which heralded a paradigm shift in the interpretation and staging of Chekhov’s plays. It is a unique glimpse behind the curtain of the laboratory of new Russian theatre in the twentieth century. Efros' articles about Chekhov and The Seagull, his diaries, interviews and conversations, and most importantly the original rehearsal records combine to form an in-depth account of of the director and his working process. This is an essential book for anyone with an interest in Chekhov and the history of modern Russian theatre.
James Thomas is Professor of Theater at Wayne State University.
