An Introduction to the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique: a demo by Certified Chekhov Teacher Nathalie Drakemyr.

The Michael Chekhov Acting Technique is highly respected and taught all around the world. It changed the way we think of stagecraft and helped elevate acting to the art form it is today. Clint Eastwood, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Hopkins and Marilyn Monroe all studied Chekhov Technique to name but a few.

Michael Chekhov was a student of Stanislavsky’s and transformed his teacher’s method by adding imagination as a key element, and from there crafted a toolbox for actors. 

Playmate Theatre Malmö is delighted to invite as a guest Certified Chekhov Teacher Nathalie to give a class in Malmö, as an opportunity for theatre-makers of all levels of experience. The class is two hours long.

Michael Chekhov’s acting technique focuses on the powers of active concentration, imagination and the body’s ability to express the intangible. Dynamic and believable characters with rich inner lives are created in a sustainable way, as the actor’s own feelings and memories are never used and eroded. Instead, the character’s emotions are created artistically through the expressiveness of physical gestures.

This introductory workshop demo works with body and voice and gives the participants a glimpse of the tools and work needed as a surface and only initial introduction to Michael Chekhov acting technique. The class is open to actors, dancers, performance artists, directors and theatre makers, wherever they find themselves on their creative journey. 

Please bring a water bottle, come in clothes and shoes you feel free to move in. 

Nathalie provides a safe environment where there is no right or wrong, only exploration through gentle guidance.

Nathalie Drakemyr is a graduate and certified teacher of the prestigious Michael Chekhov International Academy in Berlin. She is a Swedish actress with a bilingual French/Finnish background, teaches at her own acting studio in Landskrona, is recurring, permanent performer and producing member of Teater Punch Landskrona and Dododo Productions Malmö and has previously performed with  Alla tiders teater, Teater över gränserna, Öresundsteatern, Potatopotato and more.

Playmate Theatre Malmö (est. 2017)

Playmate Theatre Malmö is a professional English-language theatre company in southern Sweden, bringing small-cast, intimate, contemporary plays of relevance to Swedish and international audiences. We collaborate with invited guest directors and at times, on joint or guest productions with other theatre companies in the region. 

In Malmö we usually perform at blackbox theatre Bastionen and when possible, tour to Copenhagen and Hamburg. We aim to perform one to two strong choices of play a year, a mixture of straight dramas and dramatic comedies, by playwrights we feel are exciting and whose writing works successfully and internationally. Playmate performs in English and auditions for actors as needed.