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The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
translated by Paul Schmidt
directed by Charles Newell
February 27 - May 3, 1998
in Rotating Repertory with An Ideal Husband
Anton Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD offers the playwright's trademark combination of bouyant humor and aching sadness. In this endlessly fascinating, insightful drama, we encounter the members and hangers-on of a once-grand family. Still proud but unable to pay their mortgage, the family is about to lose their estate to developers--including their beloved cherry orchard. They remain passive despite the attempts of a former serf to penetrate their indecision, and the sun sets as it must on a lost way of life and a vanished era.
Chekhov wrote his last play, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, in 1904 when a modern world was replacing the fading grandeur of the past. One could spend a lifetime exploring the playwright's formost works, UNCLE VANYA, THE THREE SISTERS, THE SEAGULL, and THE CHERRY ORCHARD. The culmination of the life and artistry of a magnificent playwright, THE CHERRY ORCHARD offers all the gentle, wry observation of human foibles that makes Chekhov one of the greatest and best-loved authors ever to chronicle our follies onstage. |
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