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+ 2004: Father-Russia

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As you can see, I am using "shows" directory for many classes. This one -- for Method Acting!

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- Primary Bibliography: Writings by Chekhov

- Secondary Bibliography: Reviews

- Secondary Bibliography: Books, Articles, Sections

- Author Index: Secondary Bibliographies

- General Index

Method V : Showcase

[ Method and Stanislavsky ]

Anton Chekhov, UAF cut (adaptation/translation) 1999, Anatoly Antohin, Alaska

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), on observing the burning of Moscow by the Russians in 1812: "What a tremendous spectacle! These are Scythians indeed."

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904): "The artist may not be a judge of his characters, only a dispassionate witness."
Cyber Chekhov: Virtual Theatre "Wisdom is born, stupidity is learned" (Russian Proverb)

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Select the scene or monologue for your class assignments. There are some director's notes, which can help you in analysis, but the best is to use the acring, directing and script directories and pages.

Please, read METHOD Acting pages, the play and analysis will be used for this textbook -- "Method Acting for Directors"!

Questions

This is the template category and I hope that one day I can post the study questions here. Right now all questions I have are for myself. To Moscow... "The Citie of Mosco is great, the houses for the most part of wood, and some of stone, with windowes of Iron, which serve for Summer time. There are many faire Churches of stone, but more of wood, which are hot in the Winter time. The Emperours lodging is in a faire and large Castle, walled foure square of Bricke, high and thicke, situated upon an Hill, two miles about, and the River on the South-west side of it, and it hath sixteene gates in its walls, and as many Bulwarkes." (Anthony Jeninkson, 1625, The First Voyage, 1557, in Purchase His Pilgrimes) On Moscow: "A city so irregular, so uncommon, so extraordinary, and so contrasted, had never before claimed my astonishment." (William Cox, 1792, Travels Into Poland, Russia, Sweden, etc.)

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"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life." (Boris Pasternak [1890-1960], Dr. Zhivago (1958), Part 2, Chapter 9, Section 14. "Moscow is in every thing extraordinary; as well in disappointing expectation, as i surpassing it; in causing wonder and derision, pleasure and regret...." (E.D. Clarke, 1816, Travels in Various Countries, 4th edition)

Farces + Chekhov's Love

Godot... Chekhov again?

From Chekhov to Beckett (paper)

Issues: modern/postmodern, Russian/American

Themes and motifs of the past century. Past themes?

2007 -- Pinter and Mamet (and "Chekhovian stories"?)

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