Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard

AvJames N. Loehlin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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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 reinvented Chekhov's poignant comedy of failure and hope.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-09-14
Mått:140 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt:450 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Plays in Production
Antal sidor:262
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521825931

Utforska kategorier

Teater inom Kultur
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

James N. Loehlin is currently Director of the Shakespeare at Winedale program at the University of Texas, and is a recipient of the Harry Ransom Teaching Award in the College of Liberal Arts. He is the editor of Romeo and Juliet in the Cambridge Shakespeare in Production series (2002), and of Henry V (Shakespeare in Performance, 1996).

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"Loehlin provides a detailed and through analysis of the text." -Nicholas G. Zekulin, Canadian Slavonic Papers

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. The Cherry Orchard: text and performance; 2. The Moscow Art Theatre production, 1904; 3. Russian and Soviet performances, 1904–53; 4. The Cherry Orchard in English: early productions; 5. The Cherry Orchard at mid-century: Barrault, Saint-Denis, Strehler; 6. Radical revisions, 1975–7; 7. Brook and Stein, 1981–97; 8. The Cherry Orchard after one hundred years; Works cited.