Mihail Cehov sau Calea discipolului revoltat

Abstract

This article analyzes the ways in which the own artistic researches and biography had shaped the pedagogical method of Michael Chekhov. "The most brilliant of my students" in Stanislavski's words, Mikhail/Michael Chekhov, the grandson of the great playwright, is one of the most important acting school creators of the 20th century. He trained or influenced some of the most brilliant american theater pedagogues and actors, including Stella Adler, Mala Powers, Gregory Peck, Gary Cooper, Yull Brynner, Clint Eastwood, Anthony Quinn or Marilyn Monroe. His theatrical research aimed to provide an acting technique that would stimulate access to imagination, without appealing to the actor's personal affective memory - the main tool in Stanislavskian pedagogy.