The Cherry Orchard

<p><i>The orchard’s white, all white. You haven’t forgotten, have you, Lyuba? The avenue lined with trees, unfurling like a slender ribbon. And on moonlit nights, it shimmers. You remember, don’t you? You haven’t forgotten?</i><br><br>Can anyone persuade Ranevskaya and her aristocratic household that the world is changing, and they must too?<br><br>Following internationally acclaimed productions of <i>The Seagull</i> (Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney) and <i>Three Sisters</i> (Young Vic, London), director Benedict Andrews has a reputation as one of the world’s leading interpreters of Chekhov. <br><br>For the Donmar Warehouse he stages the great writer’s final play. It’s a work that predicted and captured the end of an era, but is timeless in its humanity, prescience, humour and pathos. <i>The Cherry Orchard </i>is Chekhov’s masterpiece.<br><br>This edition was published to coincide with its world premiere at London’s Donmar Warehouse in April 2024.</p>