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The Cherry OrchardOn the coverMarch, Isaac Levitan, 1895
The Cherry Orchard
An aristocratic Russian family returns to its beloved country estate to find it must be sold to pay their debts, and cannot bring themselves to act as the world they knew slips away. Chekhov’s final play, a comedy shadowed by loss.
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The quietly perfect farewell of a great writer, funny and sad in the same breath, about a whole way of life ending while everyone talks past each other. Modern theatre begins here.
SettingRural Russia, c.1900
Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, its old landed gentry drifting toward ruin as a new moneyed class rises, and an entire social order senses, without admitting, that its time is up.