Chekhov The Cherry Orchard

Name: Chekhov The Cherry Orchard
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ISBN: 9780521533300

ISBN-10: 0521533309

ISBN-13: 9780521533300

Edition: 2006

Authors: James N. Loehlin, Michael Robinson

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Chekhov's masterpiece, about a Russian family losing its ancestral home, combines a lament for a vanishing past with a hopeful dream of the future. In the century since its first performance, The Cherry Orchard has undergone a wide range of conflicting interpretations: tragic and comic, naturalistic and symbolic, reactionary and radical. Beginning with the 1904 premiere at Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre, this study traces the performance history of one of the landmark plays of the modern theatre. Considering the work of such directors as Anatoly Efros, Giorgio Strehler, Peter Brook, and Peter Stein, Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard explores the way different artists, periods and cultures have…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Cherry Orchard: text and performance



The Moscow Art Theatre production, 1904



Russian and Soviet performances, 1904-1953



The Cherry Orchard in English: early productions



The Cherry Orchard at mid-century: Barrault, Saint-Denis, Strehler



Radical revisions, 1975-1977



Brook and Stein, 1981-1997



The Cherry Orchard after one hundred years


Notes


Works cited


Index