The Cherry Orchard

Georgia Shakespeare celebrates its core acting company as the characters in Anton Chekhov’s greatest comedy cling feverishly to their past while progress threatens to bulldoze their precious memories into oblivion. Carolyn Cook leads the ensemble as Madame Ranevskaya, a proud woman who returns home to Russia after years away in Paris. She learns that debts are mounting, servants are grumbling, and the family estate is about to be auctioned off to developers. Don’t miss this intensely personal story of a grand family on the verge of losing it all and the deals they must strike in order to move forward.