num_pages: 96
description: Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces, forces rooted deep in history, and in the society around them. Their estate is hopelessly in debt: urged to cut down their beautiful cherry orchard and sell the land for holiday cottages, they struggle to act decisively. Tom Murphy's fine vernacular version allows us to re-imagine the events of the play in the last days of Anglo-Irish colonialism. It gives this great play vivid new life within our own history and social consciousness.
language: English
title: The Cherry Orchard
titlecomplete: The Cherry Orchard
characters: Duniasa, fata in casa, Epihodov Simion Panteleevici, contabil, Varia, fiica adoptiva a Ranevskaiei, Firs, lacheu, Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya, Gaev Leonid Andreevici, fratele Ranevskaiei, Simeonov-Piscik Boris Borisovici, mosier, Lopahin Iermolai Alexeevici, negustor, Charlotta Ivanovna, guvernanta, Iasa, tinar lacheu, Trofimov Piotr Sergheevici, student, Anya Andreyevna Ranevskaya
genres: 20th Century, Russia, Theatre, School, Drama, Plays, Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 38969
places: Russian Federation, Moscow
publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama