The Paris Manuscript: The Early Draft Rediscovered

＂This first and now largely forgotten work was handwritten in German and in it Michael Chekhov lays the groundwork for the canon of exercises and practices that, a century later, actors generally know as the Michael Chekhov Technique. Although never completed, the text affords a rare fly-on-the-wall insight into the raw material of Chekhov’s vision. This extensively revised and abridged text is presented with an introduction and a series of contemporary short essays, which offer practical suggestions to have come out of exploring Michael Chekhov Technique in the studio＂--

Michael Chekhov (1891 - 1955) (author) was a Russian actor, director, theatre maker and author, who studied with Stanislavski. His uncle was the playwright Anton Chekhov and, forced into exile under the Stalin regime, he worked as an actor extensively in Europe and the US.

Hugo Moss (editor and translator) trained at MICHA and founded Michael Chekhov Brasil in 2010 with Thaís Loureiro. In 2016, he was appointed Visiting Professor at the the State University of Campinas, Brazil.