The Cherry Orchard

It is the eleventh year of a new century. Money is tight. The mortgage is due or the estate will be sold at auction. Is this America circa 2011? No, it’s Russia in 1911. Some things never change!

Chekhov’s final play, cleverly mixing comedy and tragedy, tells the tale of the Ranevskaya’s, a Russian family of wealth and history whose estate faces financial ruin unless strong measures are taken to save it. With the structure of their way of life crumbling, money has run dry and options are few. When the family matriarch returns from the arms of her freeloading lover, a devoted former servant provides a solution. As the sun sets on their family estate, will the family take action or will they be condemned by their own arrogance and inertia?