The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
 

The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)

by Anton Chekhov

Tom Murphy's Irish vernacular adaptation of Chekhov's most popular play allows us to re-imagine the events in the last days of Anglo-Irish colonialism, giving The Cherry Orchard a vivid new life within our own history and social consciousness.

Tom Murphy is an award-winning Irish playwright whose work includes The Sanctuary, Bailegangaire, and The Wake.
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Most people's favorite Chekhov play. Funny (in that bittersweet Chekhovian sense) and prophetic...did anyone just hear a tree fall in the forest?

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