The Cherry Orchard

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About The Cherry Orchard

Chekhov’s masterful last play, The Cherry Orchard, is a work of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family and their struggle to maintain their status in a changing world. Alternately touching and farcical, this subtle, intelligent play stars the incomparable Marsha Mason. Translated and adapted by Frank Dwyer and Nicholas Saunders.   Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.   Directed by Rosalind Ayres Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg Marsha Mason as Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranyevskaya Hector Elizondo as Leonid Andreyevich Gayev Michael Cristofer as Yermolay Alekseyevich Lopakhin Jennifer Tilly as Dunyasha (Avdotya Fyodorovna) Joey Slotnick as Semyon Panteleyevich Yepikhodov  Christy Keefe as Anya Ranyevskaya Amy PIetz as Varya Ranyevskaya Jordan Baker as Charlotta Ivanovna Jeffrey Jones as Boris Borisovich Semyonov-Pischick Charles Durning as Feers Tim DeKay as Pyotr Sergeyevich Trofimov John Chardiet as Passer-By Sound Effects Artist/Stage Manager: Jane Slater Assistant Stage Manager: Cary Thompson Radio Producer: Raymond Guarna Associate Producer: Susan Raab