Danielle Carter

Details coming soon about Discovering the Michael Chekhov Technique: In the Studio with Ted Pugh and Fern Sloan, written by Danielle Carter

This book unpacks the Michael Chekhov acting technique as taught by two of the great American teaching artists – Ted Pugh and Fern Sloan – who have collectively taught the technique for over 80 years across the world and who jointly founded the Michael Chekhov School in 2015.

 The author brings Pugh’s and Sloan’s own interpretations of Michael Chekhov to the reader and, through doing so, makes the technique fluid, simple, clear and concise. We come to deeply understand key Chekhov tools and how to implement them in the classroom, in auditions, rehearsals and performance.

 This handbook for actors is an invitation to engage with their own creative individuality, to unveil each actor’s true potential, and to discover the limitless capacities within the human organism: the wonder of the physical form and the wisdom of the body that this acting technique reveals.

Ultimately, this book outlines a method that is essential to any actor’s toolkit and offers them the possibility of being an artist. Each moment of this work is full of creative joy and is an exploration, filled with the riches of seeking and discovering that serves as a complete introduction to the Michael Chekhov technique.