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The Path of a Character: Michael Chekhov's Inspired Acting and Theatre Semiotics

The Path of a Character: Michael Chekhov's Inspired Acting and Theatre Semiotics

Meerzon, Yana
Heftrich, Urs

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Series: Heidelberger Publikationen Zur Slavistik, Book 29

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ISBN10: 363153096X
ISBN13: 9783631530962
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Jun 22 2005
Pages: 342
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Nephew of Anton Chekhov and a disciple of Konstantin Stanislavskii, Russian émigré actor Michael Chekhov (1891-1955) created one of the most challenging and inspiring acting theories of the 20th century. This book is a reinterpretation of Chekhov's theory both in the context of the cultural and political milieu of his time and in the light of theatre semiotics: from Prague Structuralism to French Poststructuralism and contemporary performance theory. This work presents Chekhov's understanding of the actor's stage product - stage mask - as a psychological, psychophysical and cultural construct engaged with the mysteries of the actor/character or, what Mikhail Bakhtin describes as the author/hero, dialectical relationships. It offers new horizons in interdisciplinary and intercultural visions on theatre acting described by Chekhov as a most liberating and cathartic process.

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