The Cherry Orchard: A Comedy in Four Acts
In The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov's last full-length play, an impoverished landowning family is unable to face the fact that their estate is about to be auctioned off. Lopakhin, a local merchant, presents numerous options to save it, including cutting down their prized cherry orchard. But the family is stricken with denial. The Cherry Orchard charts the precipitous descent of a wealthy family and in the process creates a bold meditation on social change and bourgeois materialism.
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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. NY Post...a new, faithful, very playable and gorgeous translation by Jean-Claude van Itallie.
\ 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.\ \ \ Village VoiceJean-Claude van Itallie's adaptation is splendid, colloquial without being cute, simple, moving, funny.\ \ \ \ \ From the Publisher\ "Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive…will be acted again and again"—New Statesman\ \ \
