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Podcasts/blogs

The History of Actor Training in the British Drama School Podcast

by Robert Price

The Actors Work

by Corey Parker

Soul of the American Actor

by Ronald Rand

(Rand is an expert on Harold Clurman)

Play on Podcasts (fully produced audio Shakespeare)

on Michael Chekhov:

The Castle Awakens: Mikhail Chekhov's 1931 Occult Fantasy by Mel Gordon

Dartington Hall Archive

Michael Chekhov and His Approach to Acting in Contemporary Performance Training
thesis by Richard Solomon

Michael Chekhov’s Production of Twelfth Night at the Habimah Theatre by Liisa Byckling

The Life and Work of Deirdre Hurst du Prey by Diane Caracciolo
(du Prey was Chekhov's scribe, largely responsible for the creation of To The Actor)  

Michael Chekhov’s Theatre Pedagogy in the Age of
Cosmopolitanism - Yana Meerzon

 

Michael_Chekhov's Theatre of the Future by Yana Meerzon

"The Pencil" Memories of Dartington Hall and the English Origin of the M. Chekhov Acting Method

Oral History of Deirdre Hurst Du Prey transcribed and edited by Diane Caracciolo  

"Rick" on Michael Chekhov

Michael Chekhov: The Technique In Microcosm

on the Moscow Art Theatre and Stanislavsky:

Anton Chekhov A Genius in a Nutshell (1960 UNESCO Journal articles)

Boleslavsky 1923 Articles on arrival of MAT in NYC (compiled by Corey Parker)

Cultural Exchange -The Role of Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art

Experiencing or pretending - are we getting to the core of Stanislavsky’s approach?
by John Gillett.


The Meaning Behind the Lines by Wendy Smith (How Ibsen's toughness and Chekhov's tenderness transformed American playwriting and acting)

The birth of modern Russian theater at Slavyanskiy Bazar

 

THE ROLE OF STANISLAVSKY AND THE MOSCOW ART THEATRE’S 1923 AND1924 AMERICAN TOURS

Cassandra M. Brooks, B.A. (thesis)

Reading for the Soul in Stanislavsky
Orthodox Mysticism, Mainstream Occultism, Psychology and the System in the Russian Silver Age


thesis by Patrick C. Carriere

Stanislavski was racked by self-doubt
by 
Simon Callow - The Guardian

 

Spectator and Dialogues of Power in Early Soviet Theater


Stanislavski and America - A Critical Chronology


Stanislavski Context: Interview with Maria Shevtsova


on The Method:

Cossack Cowboys, Mad Russians: The Émigré Actor in Studio-Era Hollywood

by BETH HOLMGREN

Is There Madness in the Method? by Tyrone Guthrie

Looking Back at a Half-Forgotten Pioneer of Method ActingJohn Garfield

by Isaac Butler (New Yorker

Marilyn and her Monsters by Sam Kashner - Vanity Fair

The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
by Isaac Butler

Paul Newman’s Lost Masterpiece – The Forward

Shape-Shifters by Simon Callow (review of Butler "Method" book)

The Realistic Acting Method as a Mechanism of Attenuation of the Actor’s Presence in Theatre and Cinema

Tracing the impact of Stanislavsky’s System on Strasberg’s Method (thesis)

On Jacques Copeau, the Vieux-Colombier, Michel Saint-Denis and Suzanne Bing:

The Child as a Model in the approaches of Jacques Copeau, Jacques Lecoq and Philippe Gaulier

by Rodrigo Scalari

Suzanne Bing, collaborator of Jacques Copeau

by Raphaelle Doyon

Improvisation and the Mask at the Ecole du Vieux-Colombier
The Case of Suzanne Bing by Thomas Donahue


Colombier Appel.jpg


Copeau and Bing's Childhood Laboratories

The Old Vic Center 1945


Catherine Dasté on Old Vic School


Jeremy Geidt Saint-Denis memoir

Misc.

Acting Approaches diagram by Brendan Hughes


Gordon Craig - On the Art of the Theatre


Emotion Memory and the Medieval Performance of Violence by Jody Enders

 

The Stage art of Theodore Komisarjevsky - An exhibition in the Harvard Theatre Collection.pdf

The Way of Transformation (The Laban-Malmgren System of Dramatic Character Analysis)


"You Will Always Have a Job" (analyzes the symbolic, political and economic power dynamics

inherent in the production of plays and films)

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