The Cherry Orchard

Overview

Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.

Directed by Richard Eyre

Top cast

Judi Dench

Mme. Ranevsky

Bill Paterson

Lopakhin

Anton Lesser

Trofimov

Harriet Walter

Varya

S

Suzanne Burden

Anya

Frederick Treves

Gayev

Timothy Spall

Epikhodov

F

Frances Low

Dunyasha

David Rintoul

Yasha

Anna Massey

Charlotte

P

Paul Curran

Firs

Wensley Pithey

Pischik

Richard Vanstone

Passer By

D

David Blake Kelly

Station Master

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