The Paris Manuscript

Name: The Paris Manuscript
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing (AUS)
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The Early Draft Rediscovered

By: Michael Chekhov, Hugo Moss (Transcribed by, Editor)

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Paperback | 20 February 2025

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224 Pages

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21.6 x 13.8 x 2.54

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In the early 1930s, during his first years of exile and 20 years before the publication of his seminal work To the Actor, Michael Chekhov made his first incursion into the challenging task of writing about an actorâs experience and his vision of the craft.

This important, though largely forgotten, work (the so-called âParis Manuscriptâ) was handwritten in German and in it we find Chekhov laying the groundwork for the canon of exercises and practices that, nearly a century later, has widely become known as the Michael Chekhov Technique. Although never completed, the manuscript affords a privileged fly-on-the-wall glimpse of the dawning of an artistic geniusâs creative vision.

This manuscript was the result of Chekhovâs rich collaboration with Swiss theatre director, painter and illustrator Georgette Boner, and the text itself is supplemented with facsimile scans of manuscript pages, photographs, correspondence and other material from Bonerâs personal archive.

As the popularity of the Michael Chekhov Technique continues to spread globally, the âParis Manuscriptâ offers a timely invitation for actors to take a step back and (re)discover for themselves the structural foundations of Michael Chekhov's vision.

Chekhovâs text has been translated, edited and abridged by Hugo Moss, co-founder and director of Michael Chekhov Brasil, who has written an introduction and a series of short essays, âReflections From the Studioâ, which build on a few key elements emerging from the manuscript and over a decade of exploring Chekhov's artistic legacy in the studio environment and in performance.

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