Event – Michael Chekhov – Problem Child of Stanislavsky?.

Professor Jonathan Pitches, Chair in Theatre and Performance, School of Performance and Cultural Industries University of Leeds
Wednesday 18th March at 5.00 p.m. – Room C101

In this illustrated talk Professor Pitches introduced the work of Michael Chekhov, drawing specifically on his time at Dartington in the mid-late 1930s. He outlined some of the philosophical and practical differences between Chekhov’s Technique and the Stanislavsky system and presented Chekhov as a practitioner who in many ways was before his time.

Jonathan Pitches is Professor of Theatre and Performance in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at Leeds University. He has written two books on Russian actor training: one dedicated to Vsevolod Meyerhold for the Routledge Performance Practitioners series (2003) and a second entitled Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting (2005), described in Theatre Research International as ‘a remarkable achievement’. He is the co-Editor of the new Routledge journal, Theatre Dance and Performance Training and is currently working on an EU-supported cultural exchange project with the Shanghai Theatre Academy.