Arts Archives The fifth Archive 2000-2001 / 1

Joanna Merlin was a student of Michael Chekhov's in Los Angeles at the end of Chekhov's life. In this video Archive of a week-long workshop given to professional actors at the Birmingham School of Music and Drama as part of a conference on Chechov organised by the centre for Performance Research, Merlin introduces the detailed practices and thinking that inform this technique which holds a central place in Chekhov actor trtaining. Merlin herself is a well-known actress, both in films and on Brodway, as well as being casting directer for such films as Bertolucci's "The last emperor" .