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Modern Drama

Volume 51, Number 1, Spring 2008

E-ISSN: 1712-5286 Print ISSN: 0026-7694

DOI: 10.1353/mdr.0.0030

Sharon Marie Carnicke
Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard (review)
Modern Drama - Volume 51, Number 1, Spring 2008, pp. 152-154

University of Toronto Press

Project MUSE - Modern Drama - Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard (review) Project MUSE Journals Modern Drama Volume 51, Number 1, Spring 2008 Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard (review) Modern Drama Volume 51, Number 1, Spring 2008 E-ISSN: 1712-5286 Print ISSN: 0026-7694 DOI: 10.1353/mdr.0.0030 Reviewed by Sharon Marie CarnickeUniversity of Southern California James N. Loehlin. Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard. Plays in Production Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xi + 248, illustrated. $75.00 (Hb); $24.99 (Pb). True to the spirit of the series to which he contributes, James N. Loehlin provides a chronological study of the production history of one of the world's great modern dramas, Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Beginning with the premiere, directed by Konstantin Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, Loehlin traverses more than one-hundred years of notable productions in many different interpretive and visual styles, from leading directors and producers as varied as the U.S.'s Eva Le Gallienne and James Earl Jones; Russia's Vsevolod Meyerhold, Maria Knebel, and Anatoly Efros; Italy's Giorgio Strehler; Britain's Tyrone Guthrie and Peter Brook; Rumania's Andrei Serban; Germany's Peter Stein; and Japan's Tadashi Suzuki. By...


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