The cherry orchard
Subtitle: a comedy in four acts
By: by Anton Chekhov ; English version by Tom Stoppard ; from a literal translation by Helen Rappaport.
Contributors: Stoppard, Tom.; Rappaport, Helen.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9780802144096
Subjects: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, -- 1860-1904 -- Translations into English; Gentry -- Russia -- Drama
Genres: Translations into English; Drama
Work titles: Vishnevyĭ sad.
Description: 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 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.
Notes: Translation of Vishnevyĭ sad.