TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yana Meerzon
PY  - 2005
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Path of a Character
T2  - Michael Chekhov’s Inspired Acting and Theatre Semiotics
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1099176
N2  - 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.
KW  - Cechov, Michail A., Schauspielkunst, Tschechov, Michael, Russland, russisches Theater, Semiotik, Schauspiel, Prager Schule, Stanislavski, Konstantin
LA  - English
ER  -