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Robin Ashenden on his 'Uncle Vanya' workshop:
Basically, the workshop is an attempt to get inside the world of Uncle Vanya, both with and off the text.
There will be discussion, improvisation, exploring possible subtexts, and with a conscious attempt to look at Chekhov not as a dusty
19th century playwright, but as a contemporary . There may also be DVD screenings of this or that scene to see the way different productions
have given radically different accounts of the play. Various techniques will be used for examining the games that the characters play with each other,
and the scripts (i.e. self-absorbed myths of themselves) that each character is living out. The aim would be to export British practices for looking at
Chekhov. The idea would be to leave actors with some concrete ideas for really extracting stuff from a text, getting inside a play and asking the right
questions about characters and their relationships with each other. Naturally the knowledge would, I hope, be transferable to any naturalistic script
thereafter: Chekhov simply seems to be starting off with the best and deepest example.
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