{"id":688,"date":"2017-11-13T20:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T20:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/16\/?p=688"},"modified":"2022-02-28T20:53:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:53:12","slug":"noted-by-the-editor-the-routledge-companion-to-michael-chekhov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.critical-stages.org\/16\/noted-by-the-editor-the-routledge-companion-to-michael-chekhov\/","title":{"rendered":"Noted By the Editor*<\/em>: The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Edited by Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu and Yana Meerzon
\n<\/strong>433 pp.\u00a0 London:\u00a0 Routledge<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everything you ever wanted to know (and probably quite a lot more) about Russian actor-director-teacher Michael Chekhov is now to be found in this quite extraordinary volume put together for Routledge by two of the world\u2019s leading Michael Chekhov scholars, Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu, from France, and Russian-born Yana Meerzon, who now lives in Canada. Without doubt, this volume will become the go-to source for everything about this Russian-born artist.<\/p>\n

And not just questions related to his acting theories or his approaches to text. Who knew for instance that Michael, the son of Anton Chekhov\u2019s brother Alexander, was also married to Olga Knipper? Well, not the same Olga Knipper that Uncle Anton was married to but the real Olga\u2019s seventeen-year old niece of the same name. Apparently, that marriage was kept a secret for a time even to the widowed Aunt Olga. And who knew about Michael Chekhov\u2019s deep fascination with the ideas connected to anthroposophy and his work on the spiritual side of things inspired by German educator Rudolf Steiner?<\/p>\n

Composed of twenty-five well-edited essays divided into sections that contextualize Chekhov\u2019s theory, practice and pedagogy, explore his collaborative work with individual artists and companies around the world, look at his influence on interdisciplinary practice and articulate his pedagogy of acting today, the book also includes a wonderfully detailed chronology of Chekhov\u2019s life and many truly rare photos from private collections around the world.<\/p>\n

The writers\u2014led by the two editors and Liisa Byckling from Finland\u2014come from a wide range of countries including Canada, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the United States, the U.K. and, of course, Russia.\u00a0 The material ranges from methodology to meditation, from psychology to the cult of the Russian studio, from the place of Shakespeare on the Russian stage to Chekhov\u2019s work in Britain and the U.S., from his work in German film to his private acting classes with film stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Jack Palance, Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper.<\/p>\n

A book for theatre libraries world-wide.<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>*Don Rubin<\/strong> is editor of the six-volume World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre<\/em>. He is a Professor Emeritus of Theatre at York University in Toronto and Founding Director and Former Chair of both York\u2019s Department of Theatre and its Graduate Program in Theatre Studies.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9<\/strong> 2017 Don Rubin
\nCritical Stages\/Sc\u00e8nes critiques<\/em> e-ISSN: 2409-7411<\/p>\n

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This work is licensed under the
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