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The Cherry Orchard

A Chekhov for the ages
Donmar Warehouse
by
ABR Arts 27 May 2024

The Cherry Orchard

A Chekhov for the ages
Donmar Warehouse
by
ABR Arts 27 May 2024
Nina Hoss as Madame Ranevskaya (photograph by Johan Persson)
Nina Hoss as Madame Ranevskaya (photograph by Johan Persson)

Anxiety and agitation failing to translate into action as an exhausted and exhausting world faces an uncertain future – the contemporary relevance of The Cherry Orchard requires no special pleading. Retaining the characters and narrative trajectory of the play written by Anton Chekhov in 1903, Australian director Benedict Andrews employs music and contemporary diction in an ambitious production that takes the humour in Chekhov’s final play seriously. It features Nina Hoss, the German star of stage and screen, as Madame Ranevskaya, the owner of the estate containing the titular cherry orchard.

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