The Cherry Orchard -- Anton Chekhov

<p>A civilised and complacent culture is on the brink of collapse... <p/>The tide of change is coming. Madam Ranyevskaya's liberal world of privilege and pleasure is beginning to show cracks, but she and her family live on in denial. <p/>Lopakhin wants to rescue Ranyevskaya. The hard-working son of one of her family's serfs, his new-found wealth can offer shelter and security to the woman he has loved since boyhood, but it will come at a high price.<br>Meanwhile, revolution hangs in the air, the poor and hungry are pushing at the doors, and the tutor Trofimov predicts a tumultuous change for everybody. <p/>Chekhov's final masterpiece is full of wild humour and piercing sadness in this fresh, funny and honest new translation by award-winning playwright and Russian speaker Rory Mullarkey. A portrait of changing times, it maps the building tensions between the desperate longing to hold onto what is familiar and the restless lure of the new.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Anton Chekhov<br><b>Publisher:</b> Methuen Drama<br><b>Published:</b> 03/27/2018<br><b>Pages:</b> 88<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.21lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.18d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781350086029<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><p><b>Anton Chekhov</b> (1860-1904), Russian physician, dramatist and author, is considered to be one of the greatest writers of short stories and modern drama. Born in Taganrog, a port town near the Black Sea, he attended medical school at Moscow University.