The Cherry Orchard (Acting Edition)
by Anton Chekhov trans Tom Stoppard, Tom Stoppard, Anton Chekhov

Name: The Cherry Orchard (Acting Edition)
Brand: Anton Chekhov trans Tom Stoppard
SKU: 9780573697500
Rating: 3.68 (40075 reviews)

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Large Cast

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Russian Comedy

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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