The cherry on top: The Cherry Orchard at the O’Reilly
Chekhov famously wrote The Cherry Orchard – the story of the inevitable decline of an aristocratic Russian family – as a comedy. He was horrified by its first production, directed by Stanislavsky as a tragedy. This tension in the nature of play has been grappled with by directors ever since; Purkiss and Dawson-Hunte – […]
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