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The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard (Acting Edition)
by Anton Chekhov trans Tom Stoppard, Tom Stoppard, Anton Chekhov
Synopsis
As produced by London's Old Vic and later New York's BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) in 2009.
Anton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theatre.
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 d
Press Reviews
"Without pressing it, this Cherry Orchard, in a nimble new version by Tom Stoppard that invites fresh comic shadings, pushes that sense of the incongruous not so much into farce as into Alice in Wonderland absurdity [...] Mr. Stoppard’s adaptation is full of classically Stoppardesque instances of eloquence gone awry."
— The New York Times
"A sure-footed reworking by Tom Stoppard!"
— New York Magazine
"I can’t recall another production of The Cherry Orchard in which comedy and elegy were so well balanced [...] there was never a moment when I was anything other than enthralled."
— The Wall Street Journal
Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Year 2012
Binding Paperback
Pages 82
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573697500
ISBN-10 0573697507
The Cherry Orchard (Acting Edition) is a Russian comedy play written by Anton Chekhov trans Tom Stoppard and published by Samuel French (2012).
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