Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theater: Crash Course Theater #34
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2018
- Get ready for Russian modernism. Mike is teaching you about the playwrighting of Catherine the Great, Anton Chekhov's plays, the Moscow Art Theater, and the acting theories of Stanislavski. It's all very real, and very modern. From a Realism and Modernism perspective.
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"...he moos at her, and she throws some shoes." That ending alone is enough for me.
What is the point? Why did Lopakhin moo?
@@ghabime9902 I am rehearsing The Cherry Orchard atm, I play Lopahkin, and I'm also confused...
BTW, at least in the version of the script we are using (there's that too...) it's not mooing, it's a goat noise, and it's not at the end, it's still on the first act, when Liubov arrives.
For a 100+ year-old play, it holds it's relevance pretty well, I must say.
Samovars are used for tea not alcohol. They're basically hot water urns.
"...the only not very thick Russian book that has ever existed."
I spit out my water.
"Instead, he moos at her. She throws some shoes" is such an accurate asking-her-out scene XD
You guys introduced me to "The Cherry Orchard"! I saw the play a few weeks ago and, damn, I cried when the old servant Firs died, all forgotten and alone. It was one of the most affecting, tragic deaths I have ever seen. It was soooo sad. The actor who played him was incredibly good. But just...wow...the play's ending will stick with me, along with the German governess, she was very weird, whenever I think about "The Cherry Orchard."
Check out Chekhov's lesser known short story "Vanka," it's brilliantly written, but has a very sad ending. I've always admired how Chekhov's short stories and plays don't necessarily have a "happily ever after ending" and the short story "Vanka" embodies that viewpoint.
*Chekhov's gun intensifies*
While my favorite is the moment in Uncle Vanya, I do love how he just decides to mess with the gun expectations in The Cherry Orchard by having Carlotta on stage early in the play cleaning her gun, and then the gun never appears again.
Chekhov was my primary focus when I was studying theatre in college, and the way I've always interpreted his emphasis on comedy (as compared to how Stanislavski wanted to play everything for maximum pathos) was that people and life can be ridiculous. Best example in his plays is the moment when Vanya shows up with a gun to shoot the Professor. He shoots the gun twice at point blank range, yelling "BANG!" each time, and he misses both times. It's the most ridiculous thing. (Also, definitely the best Chekhov gun moment in all of his plays.) It's the kind of thing that is funny to watch as an outsider, but it's also incredibly sad for the characters because of the depths of despair and anger Vanya has been driven to to find such action necessary. I doubt Chekhov wanted it played as farce, but I think perhaps Stanislavski was over "tragifying" such moments. It'd be like doing Jane Austen straight. It just doesn't work. Real people are ridiculous. So let the audience be reminded of that while still keeping them real.
I get a jolt of excitement whenever one of these videos is uploaded. It's my favorite of Crash Course, and it's so fun and interesting!
I LOVE this channel. If I had learned all of this back in high school my life would be much different (would have participated in Drama class more). Thank you for this channel. I didn't realize how much I love the history of theater.
Thanks. This so helpful. I found that my theater education has been a great help in creating music for all media.
I hope "The cherry orchard" makes sense in context because by your explanation it just seems like a bunch of unconnected scenes
Fernando Franco Félix I have read it and it’s just as disorienting
Decarock10 you just should do some basic research about Russian history of that time, especially about class revolution
I’m sure that would explain the story but it doesn’t fix the lack of plot
"...it just seems like a bunch of unconnected scenes".
Sooooo, like real life then? :/
@Fernando Franco Félix @Decarock10: Chekhov is counting on you to connect things . . . from the context (longing, nostalgia, sentimentality, disappointment, indecision, inertia, etc) of your own experience. If you don't have that experience, then of course you can't do that. But that's true of all communication -- conventional or artistic. If I say "The cat is on the mat" . . . and you don't have experience of cats, then you miss the point.
Learning about how real Russian theater realism is eye-opening. Very enlightening.
This is awesome! And so true abt the thickness of Russian books😂 My bag had an additional heaviness each time wnen we had literature classes at school
The Moscow art theater is beautiful.
My mom works there!
I love the cherry orchard! Another great episode :) for my acting classes in college, we read one of stanislovski's books per year. By the end, we had a really wide range of acting skills, and my prof shaped each course around the respective book. It was really rooted, and fun. It's probably my favorite method, next to ancient greek (We did some Euripides tragedy, and dabbled in our best guess recreations of their acting style)
At UNM one of our main acting professors taught The Gister Method, which was which was professor Gister's continuation of the methods of Stanislavski. Check it out.
Oooh subtext, I love it :-)
Lermontov is pronounced with the stress on the first vowel.
Chekov this from the subject list! .... :D ...... Thanks everyone, be sure to try tonight's specials and vote in November.
This is a very good series. I like it.
Thank you!
Has a bloopers compilation been made of this CrashCourse? If not, there should be! :D
Rugnetta has transformed from a delightful pop culture, philosophy (and sometimes science) commentator and, idea presenter to a delightful traditional culture educator (and idea presenter).
Mikhail Chekhov, with his own system, is also worth mentioning.
Really good video
Nice ending. Thanks for watching
(removes the rifle from the wall)
*BANG*
And in a pool of his own blood, now lies...
My dignity.
Bar the terrible Samovar gaff, one of the best episodes yet. Also you forgot to mention that Napoleon tried to conquer Russia and failed disastrously, hence the genre dedicated to exclusively besmirching him.
It seems the artists didn't know cherries from apples. Cherries are small, and hang from the tree in bunches.
In your words so much meaning of Cherry Orchard is lost... but anyway the video is very informative
I want to put on a production of The Seagull by next year
The Cherry Orchard is one of the greatest plays ever made.
Yes, that seems to be a popular opinion. Dunno why, tho
could you do a video on factors affecting equilibrium like concentration, temperature and pressure/volume
I think you meant to post this somewhere else.
I'm here‼! Everyone can relax!
I loved this but please don't forget the African-American chitlin circuit (at least touch it) the Caribbean and Africa (specifically Sub-Sahara).
Educational!
So weird such an old art form was still being developed last century.
Could you maybe do a video on eco farming some time?
Nice Westworld reference, Thought Bubble
Huh?
WHAT'S HAPPENING CC THEATER⁉ When's the next episode coming? I wanna learn about the Grand Guignol.
My thoughts exactly! Impatiently waiting for the next episode!
1:16 anyone know the source of this picture?
Chekhov is without a doubt the most insanely talented workaholic writer ever I actually love Russia because of him.
Can you make a video about Crispr?
why was he yelling "who is gonna pay the mortgage" in between?
For some reason I expected a realist play set in Tsarist Russia to be about something grimmer than, you know, mortgages
I've never read Chekhov. But I did read a book by James Wood regarding great writing and what it's all about. He lauded Chekhov's writing, mostly because it was so idiosyncratic and life-like. James Wood zeroed in on a short story (or play?) where a man and a woman were done having sex, and the man takes out a half-eaten watermelon from underneath his bed and starts eating it scoop by scoop. No explanation. The scene is so bizarre yet so human. Like randomly mooing to a woman during a fight...
Ah, the famous manufacturer of firearms
8:15 There's the gun!
It's not on the mantelpiece.
Elena B. I totally forgot about what you do with a gun on a mantle
Popcorn anyone??
I want to see a video on Brecht
If we don't get a Threepenny Opera thought bubble I'll be sorely disappointed.
Slice of Life?
I bet I’m the only commenter that has family that works in that theatre.
Makes me proud Mom....*happy snifflls*
да уж, это точно круто)
Pyotyr Young I am a Theatre kid too. Good to meet ya my dude
Finally, we're looking at theater of the absurd, theater of the oppressed, theater of cruelty, expressionist theater, maybe even the American musical.
You are explaining in great way. You r cute sir!!!👌👍💐
Hey
Mike you look lke him! 😅
You're in the late 19th Century, I really hope you cover Japanese Hero Shows from the Late 20th Century or I will be very disappointed.
The Gran kin y'all?
To whoever is reading this: I wish you the best of all this world could give, love and blessings are coming your way:)
That's very kind of you and I wish you the same.
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please, leave vodka alone:)
Mistake-orama. Gogol wrote before Tolstoy, and "The Government Inspector" was seen by the then-current tsar during Gogol's life. Chekhov was against drinking, so linking him with lots of vodka is misleading. No mention made of Griboyedov and "Woe for Wit" the most important play in Russia before Gogol, nor or Sukhovo-Kobylin. And his Russian pronunciation is miserable.
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omg, vodra, really? I'm from Russia and this is sound so stupid. Solid stereotypes
Perhaps, but there IS a lot of vodka drinking in Chekhov's plays. The doctor in Uncle Vanya is even supposed to be an alcholic.
@@TheDumdei I know,but they should probably tell this fact more gently, because,let's say for me,as the citizen of Russia, it's sound a little offensive. It just sound biased( not sure about this word, had to translate it)
@@cheglik132 You're right. Lopahkin drinks kvass, not vodka. According to Trofimov, the Russian intelectuals are the ones drinking vodka. Bad, bad stereotypes. Bad.
Wheres stanislavski?😑😑
And also,please tell me one thing. I'm in love with history, i've been learning it for almost 10 years. Now tell me how it could be mid of 1700 when Ekatherina have become an empress in 1762? WTF, i'm so dissapointed in you
Please translate to arabic
nuclear wessel blah ha ha
Firster
Oh my goodness. Have you never seen this play? You not only pronounce all the names wrong but emphasize the wrong scenes.
3:52-4:28--UGH! If Chekhov were around today, he'd be that awkward kid who thinks himself an artistic genius and who's avoided by everyone else, even the other theater kids, because he's so irritatingly, undeservedly full of himself.
I'm sorry, I know it must be an unpopular opinion since he's hailed as a playwriting god, but I don't like Chekhov. He seems insufferably pretentious. Weaving solid subtext into work that's "actually like real life" doesn't mean you abandon creating strong tales and characters. Any schmuck with a pen could write plays with plots as self-indulgent and boringly stretched out as Chekhov's. The fact that "The Seagull" first bombed at its premiere and audiences booed it doesn't surprise me at all.
Okay, I've said it. Now you can go ahead and declare me a theatrical heretic and send me to Siberia or something.
Forget entertainment. Here is the *real* reality:
Jesus Christ died on a cross to save people from their sin, according to the bible. Then Jesus rose from the dead, 3 days later, thus defeating death. Anyone who believes this will not perish but will have eternal life.