The Cherry Orchard

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 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 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.<BR>