The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov, Peter Gill

Overview

Peter Gill’s luminous version of The Cherry Orchard brings the psychological realism of Chekhov’s characters into sharp focus.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783190423
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/29/2014
Series:	Oberon Modern Plays
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Peter Gill's plays include The Sleeper's Den, Over Gardens Out and Small Change, all first produced at the Royal Court Theatre, and Mean Tears / In the Blue, Kick for Touch and Cardiff East, all produced at the RNT. In 1964 he became Assistant Director at the Royal Court Theatre, and has since directed over 80 productions in the UK, Europe and North America. He founded the RNT Studio in 1984, since when he has been an Associate Director of the RNT.

What People are Saying About This

James Parer

"Carnicke's Cherry Orchard is direct, easily accessible to young American students, and mercifully free of all that blather that mucks up so much of the other versions that I know." --(James Parker, Late Professor of Theatre, Virginia Commonwealth University)

Editorial Reviews

Jean-Claude van Itallie's adaptation is splendid, colloquial without being cute, simple, moving, funny.

Village Voice

I don't think I have ever seen anything quite like this production on a stage before—I left the Beaumont exhilarated.

NY Times

...a new, faithful, very playable and gorgeous translation by Jean-Claude van Itallie.

NY Post

"Senelick . . . has done his job as scholar and translator nearly to perfection."

Weekly Standard

Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive…will be acted again and again” —New Statesman

From the Publisher

"Mr. Karam’s plays aren’t tearful, but they are often about loss—of love, of health, of innocence—and the messy, haphazard, necessary ways we get on with our lives afterward . . . He specializes in painful comedies that really shouldn’t be as funny as they are. Karam is a mature writer, very much in command of his gifts."

New York Times

"The more you see Anton Chekhov’s final play, the weirder it seems . . . The Cherry Orchard contains distinctly bizarre touches: unexplained offstage noises, ominous portents of revolution, and a morbid ending that's nearly Beckettian . . . Adapter Stephen Karam layers American accents (racial and immigration anxieties) into his lean, accessible script."

Time Out Magazine

"Stephen Karam is among the very best of his generation of playwrights."

New York Magazine