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The Cherry Orchard (Stoppard)

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  5w, 9m

English version by Tom Stoppard
From a literal translation by Helen Rappaport

As produced by London's Old Vic and later, New York's BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) in 2009.

The Cherry Orchard (Stoppard)

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    5w, 9m

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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. Robert Burstein declared that “there are none who bring the drama to a higher realization of its human role.”

In The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov’s last full-length play in a new translation by master dramatist Tom Stoppard, 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.

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“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

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Authors

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard’s most recent play, The Hard Problem, opened at the National Theatre in 2015. He wrote his first play, Enter a Free Man, whilst working as a journalist in Bristol. His plays include Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, ...

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) was a Russian playwright and author. He is considered to be one of the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem. Chekhov practiced as a medical ...

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