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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

"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

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

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 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

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

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

Chekov's great tragicomic eulogy for a passing way of life is superbly adapted to make a powerful and beautifully playable drama. Plays for Performance Series.

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'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

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

In "The Cherry Orchard" Mme. Ranevsky can be saved from ruin if she will only consent to a perfectly simple step-the sale of an estate. She cannot do this, is ruined, and thrown out into the unsympathetic world. Chekhov is the dramatist, not of action, but of inaction. The tragedy... Read Full Overview

Weird isn't it. Years of the same old thing and then suddenly, without warning, tomorrow is a stranger.

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