From Anton Chekhov’s texts to a new scenic writing

the tradition of Russian ludic theater

Abstract

The article reflects the tradition of Russian ludic theater, a pedagogical and scenical approach that can be considered a development of the Stanislavski System and nourishment for contemporary theatricalities. It develops itself from analysis on my direct experiences with the ludic approach through contact with director-pedagogues such as Jurij Alschitz and Anatoly Vassiliev and bibliographic research. I present some generative ideas of this scene, its perspective on the formation of the actor and also I seek to throw parallels among its proposals and implicit potentials in the texts of Anton Tcheckov, primarily from the analysis  of the way the author writes.