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Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard (Plays in Production) - Softcover

Loehlin, James N.

 
9780521533300: Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard (Plays in Production)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521533309 ISBN 13: 9780521533300
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521533309
ISBN 13 
9780521533300
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
260