Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard - 'The Cherry Orchard'

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext A study of the performance history of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Zusammenfassung One of the greatest modern plays! The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov is a poignant comedy about a family losing its ancestral home. This study examines a wide range of performances! from the 1904 premiere at Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre to experimental productions worldwide a century later. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: James Loehlin, James N. Loehlin, James N. (University of Texas Loehlin
• Assisted by: Michael Robinson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.2006
• EAN: 9780521825931
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82593-1
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Plays in Production
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet