The Cherry Orchard
"Drawn from Sharon Marie Carnicke's volume of Chekhov, Four Plays and Three Jokes (Hackett), this edition of The Cherry Orchard features Carnicke's groundbreaking translation of a play that has been called "Chekhov's ultimate theatrical coup d'etat." Acclaim for Chekhov, Four Plays and Three Jokes" "Chekhov doesn't emerge as Ãthe voice of Twilight Russia,' or anything mawkish at all, as he sometimes does, but as a sharp-eyed watcher of some very silly people. Carnicke understands Chekhov and...
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“Senelick’s accomplishment is astounding.”—Library JournalNY Post...a new, faithful, very playable and gorgeous translation by Jean-Claude van Itallie.
AcknowledgmentsNotes on the TranslationSource and TransliterationsMoney and MeasuresRussian NamesPronunciationIntroduction: A Taste for Chekhov's DramaThe Cherry Orchard 1A Selected Bibliography in English 61
\ Weekly StandardSenelick . . . has done his job as scholar and translator nearly to perfection.\ \ \ \ \ Village VoiceJean-Claude van Itallie's adaptation is splendid, colloquial without being cute, simple, moving, funny.\ \ \ NY TimesI don't think I have ever seen anything quite like this production on a stage before—I left the Beaumont exhilarated.\ \ \ \ \ NY Post...a new, faithful, very playable and gorgeous translation by Jean-Claude van Itallie.\ \
