By
View Calendar
05/12/2019 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Repeat every day until 07/12/2019
http://lanterntheatrebrighton.co.uk/the-cherry-orchard/

The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard

by Anton Chekhov translation by Michael Frayn

"Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive...will be acted again and again" (New Statesman).

In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces deeply rooted in history and the society in which they live. Their estate is hopelessly in debt and when urged to cut down their beautiful cherry orchard and sell the land for holiday cottages, they are confronted by an impossible decision. "At the time when The Cherry Orchard was written, the years before the revolution of 1905, Chekhov considered revolution in Russia irreversible and desirable."

ACT Diploma in Acting Yr2 Students Public Show

Related upcoming events

  • Road
    27/06/2024 7:30 pm - 29/06/2024 9:30 pm

    Road

    'Road' explores the lives of a small, close-knit community living in the eponymous  'road'  in a working class, Lancashire town during the era of the 1980's Thatcher government - a time of high unemployment, civil unrest and deprivation.
    The action takes place over the course of one evening as the residents of the road prepare to go out to the pub and then on home afterwards. Despite its explicit nature, it was considered extremely effective in portraying the desperation of people's lives at this time, as well as containing a great deal of gritty, Northern humour.
    A passionate, poetic and positive portrayal of working class life wherein in the audience is invited to follow the narrator, Scullery, as he travels along the road, visiting the different homes of the characters and getting messy in the local pub.

    'Road' is the first play written by Jim Cartwright, and was first produced in 1986. The play was initially performed at the Royal Court Theatre "Upstairs", with Edward Tudor-Pole as Scullery, moving "Downstairs" in 1987 with Ian Drury as the narrator. It was later made for television by renowned director Alan Clarke and starred many young actors who later became well-known including Jane Horrocks, David Thewlis, Moya Brady and Lesley Sharp. The play has won numerous awards including the George Devine Award, Plays and Players Award and the Samuel Beckett Award.