by Anton Chekhov · Methuen Drama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780413393401
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«The Cherry Orchard» is the four-act comedy by Anton Chekhov, published by Methuen Drama in paperback (96 pages, in English).
The Gayev family faces the ruin of their estate and the imminent auction of the cherry orchard, an inheritance laden with memories. The play portrays their resistance to embracing change: between clinging to the past and accepting proposals such as felling the trees and selling the land for summer cottages.
Translation by Michael Frayn in the Modern Plays collection. This version premiered at the National Theatre in London in 1978, with Dorothy Tutin, Albert Finney, Robert Stephens and Ralph Richardson.
Suitable for theatre and literature students and for readers interested in classic Russian drama.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer. Widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time, his career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
