Performing Chekhov is a unique guide to Chekhov's plays in performance. Drawing on extensive interviews with actors, directors, and designers, it offers in-depth case studies of a number of significant, and often controversial productions of Chekhov's plays. It focuses on the work of key directors in Russia, America and England, including:
* Stanislavski
* Vakhtangov
* Yuri Lyubimov
* The Moscow Art Theatre
* Lee Strasberg
* The Wooster Group
* Jonathan Miller
* Mike Alfreds
Performing Chekhov will be indispensable to students, teachers and theatre practitioners, interested not only in Chekhov, but in the history of the modern stage.