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The Cherry Orchard was first produced by the Moscow Art Theatre on Chekhov's last birthday, January 17, 1904. Since that time it has become one of the most critically admired and performed plays in the Western world, a high comedy whose principal theme, the passing... Read Full Overview

Anton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theatre. Robert Burstein declared that "there are none who bring the drama to a higher realization of its human role." In The Cherry Orchard, his last full-length play, an impoverished landowning family is unable... Read Full Overview

The orchard's white, all white. You haven't forgotten, have you, Lyuba? The avenue lined with trees, unfurling like a slender ribbon. And on moonlit nights, it shimmers. You remember, don't you? You haven't forgotten?

"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."--The New Yorker

There have always been two versions of Chekhov's heartrending and humorous masterwork: the one with which we are all familiar, staged by Konstatine Stanislavski... Read Full Overview

El jard n de los cerezos es la ltima de las piezas principales de Ch jov (las otras son La gaviota, T o Vania y Las tres hermanas). Se trata de una comedia escrita en cuatro actos, ambientada en el declive econ mico de la aristocracia rusa a finales del siglo XIX. Durante este... Read Full Overview

As produced by London's Old Vic and later New York's BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) in 2009.

Anton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theatre. In The Cherry Orchard his last full-length play an impoverished landowning family is unable to face... Read Full Overview

Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. In this stunning new translation of one of Chekhov's most popular and beloved plays, Laurence Senelick presents a fresh perspective on the master... Read Full Overview

A civilised and complacent culture is on the brink of collapse...

The tide of change is coming. Madam Ranyevskaya's liberal world of privilege and pleasure is beginning to show cracks, but she and her family live on in denial.

Lopakhin wants to rescue Ranyevskaya... Read Full Overview

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his 44 years of life. Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be one of the greatest writers in history, particularly in the genre of short stories... Read Full Overview

Written in 1903, "The Cherry Orchard" was Anton Chekhov's final play, widely regarded as one of his greatest dramatic accomplishments. It is a story set during the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of an emergent middle class in Russian society at the turn of the 20th... Read Full Overview

Anton Chekhov's masterwork of early Twentieth Century drama, The Cherry Orchard explores the changing social and economic forces in Russia at the turn of the Twentieth Century. Following the abolition of serfdom, the rise of the middle class, and the decline of the aristocracy,... Read Full Overview

The Cherry Orchard: A Comedy in Four Acts by Anton Chekhov and translated, with an Introduction, by Julius West. The Cherry Orchard is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first published by Znaniye (1904). The play opens in the early morning... Read Full Overview

The Cherry Orchard is the story of a mortgage with the grounds and beautiful trees of the proud landowners going for sale at a public auction to pay off their debts to the boorish son of a peasant who has risen in the world. Mme Ranyevskayas family departs to take up their lives... Read Full Overview

The Cherry Orchard (1903) is Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov's final play. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski--who also played the role of Leonid Gayev, the bizarre and... Read Full Overview

This translation of Checkov's tragi-comic play - perhaps his most popular - is being published to coincide with a production at the National Theatre, starring Vanessa Regrave

"Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive...will be acted again and again" (New Statesman)

In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces deeply rooted in history and the society... Read Full Overview

'Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive . . . will be acted again and again' New Statesman

In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces deeply rooted in history and the society... Read Full Overview

THE STORY: The play takes place on the grounds of Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya's estate, somewhere in the provinces of Russia. Lopakhin, a sometime peasant who has become a wealthy businessman, and Dunyasha, the maid, are waiting for Lyubov. She ha

First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, "The Cherry Orchard" remains a classic of the theatre. Completed less than a year before his death at the age of forty-four, Chekhov's last 'comedy' still ranks supreme as a human tragedy... Read Full Overview