The Notebook of Trigorin

Note from Founding Artistic Director:

 

I first discovered Chekhov as an undergrad at Yale. My teacher Nikos Psacharopoulos was considered one of the greatest directors of Chekhov in North America. He described Chekhov's plays as work that focused on "how hard it is to live and what we do to go on living." Nikos and Chekhov began my own journey into a life in the theatre which has continued to this day. At the Yale School of Drama, Earle Gister, one of the greatest acting teachers in American history, taught Chekhov and The 5 Questions technique throughout our first year. I  have studied, directed and taught acting technique through the study of Chekhov throughout my life in the theatre; now 34 years in Denver. Chekhov created a revolutionary style of text and performance we came to call "Realism" and Stanislavski was his director and also invented new ways of looking at acting that we continue to practice today. 

 

In the 1930s  Tennessee Williams began writing and also reading Chekhov. In theatre we often refer to Tennessee Williams as "The American Chekhov". Both writers looked at ordinary people living in times of struggle and even despair but always with a sense of hope and beauty. We will be presenting a cutting of Tennessee Williams' own adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull as we finish Season 15 and enter a new residency and partnership with the International School of Denver's new High School. Members of our professional Ensemble will perform on August 7th at 7pm at ISD in their new space!

 

Jennifer McCRay Rincon