Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov

Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu is Director of Research at the National Center For Scientific Research, and Assistant-Director of Sorbonne-CNRS Institute EUR’ORBEM. She is an historian of theatre and specialist in Russian and Soviet theatre.Yana Meerzon is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa. Her book publications include Adapting Chekhov: The Text and Its Mutations, co-edited with Professor J. Douglas Clayton, University of Ottawa (Routlegde, 2012).

• Introduction: Michael Chekhov - Actor, Director, Pedagogue MARIE-CHRISTINE Autant-Mathieu and YANA MEERZONPART IMichael Chekhov in context: theory, practice, pedagogy1 Michael Chekhov’s Work as Director LIISA BYCKLING2 The Theatrical System of Michael ChekhovANDREI KIRILLOV3 Georgette Boner and Michael Chekhov. Collaboration(s) and Dialogue(s) in Search of a MethodCRISTA MITTELSTEINER4 Meditation and Imagination. The contribution of anthroposophy to Michael Chekhov’s acting techniqueMONICA CRISTINI5 Michael Chekhov and the Cult of the StudioMARIE-CHRISTINE AUTANT-MATHIEU 6 The Dynamics of Psychological GesturesJOHN LUTTERBIE7 Chekhov’s Notion of Radiating: From conception to concrete Andrew R. White8 Staging the Spectator in Michael Chekhov’s Acting TheoryYANA MEERZONPART IIMichael Chekhov on stage: collaborations and encounters9 Brief Encounters: Michael Chekhov and ShakespeareLaUrence Senelick10 Michael Chekhov, Homo LudensMARIA IGNATIEVA11 Michael Chekhov and Yevgeny VakhtangovA Creative DialogueANDREI MALAEV-BABEL12 Michael Chekhov’s Legacy in Soviet RussiaA Story about Coming HomeSHARON MARIE CARNICKE13 Michael Chekhov in EnglandOutside the Magic CircleFRANC CHAMBERLAIN14 Contrasting ModernitiesThe Rural and the Urban in Michael Chekhov’s Psychological Gesture and Meyerhold’s Biomechanical ÉtudesJONATHAN PITCHES15 "Prying Behind the Curtain(s) of the Creative Process"Eugenio Barba’s Principles and Michael Chekhov’s TechniqueIAN WATSONPART III: Michael Chekhov’s heritage and interdisciplinary performative practices16 Michael Chekhov and the Visual ArtsInfluences, Synergies, CollaborationsJulia Listengarten17 Russian Delsartism and Michael ChekhovThe Search for the Eternal TypeRose Whyman 18 "As the Shadow Follows the Body" Examining Chekhov’s Creation of Character through "Eastern" PracticesJerri Daboo 19 Cycles of CreationMichael Chekhov and the Yinyang Wuxing CosmologyDANIEL MROZ 20 Michael Chekhov in German FilmOksana Bulgakowa21 Michael Chekhov the Hollywood ActorJacqueline NacachePART IVMichael Chekhov’s theatre system and acting pedagogy today22 Chekhov’s Lithuanian LessonsGytis Padegimas23 Developing the Imagination: Michael Chekhov in Actor TrainingLionel Walsh 24 Michael Chekhov’s Five Guiding Principles and Theatre Practice Today: The Case of "Tender Napalm" by Phillip RidleyCynthia Ashperger 25 The Legacy of Michael Chekhov: Then and NowJoanna Merlin

"Quite extraordinary [...] Without doubt, this volume will become the go-to source for everything about this Russian-born artist."- Critical Stages"This collection is a fascinating, provocative, and even moving body of writings about one of the great inventors and visionaries of twentieth-century theatre."- Performance Matters