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5 unusual facts about The Cherry Orchard


Abramtsevo Colony

One building, the main "manor," is said to have been the model for the estate in which Anton Chekhov set The Cherry Orchard.

An Evening of Long Goodbyes

Charles is shocked to learn that Bel is planning a trip to Chekhov's home town in Russia to study The Cherry Orchard, her favorite play.

Harry Denford

The Cherry Orchard at The Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks and in 2009 he was asked to direct the somewhat 'eyebrows' raised from the purist mid winter production of Midsummer Night's Dream for Shakespeare's The Rose (theatre) on London's Bankside.

Sakura no Sono

The story focuses on individuals from a drama club that are putting on the play The Cherry Orchard.

The drama club of Oka Academy an all girl high school put on the play The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov for the anniversary of the school's founding.


Amy McAllister

Recent work includes Sons Without Fathers at the Arcola Theatre, White Rabbit Red Rabbit at Live Theatre, Horse Piss For Blood by Kneehigh Theatre writer Carl Grose, No Man's Land, performed in Berlin and in the UK, and The Cherry Orchard, adapted by Tom Stoppard, in which she played the role of Anya.

Googie Withers

Withers starred in a number of stage plays, including Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, Desire of the Moth, The First 400 Years (with Keith Michell), Beekman Place (for which she also designed the set), The Kingfisher, Stardust, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Wilde's An Ideal Husband for the Melbourne Theatre Company; both productions toured Australia.

Morven Christie

In 2008 Christie was cast in Sam Mendes' first Bridge Project theatre company, playing Anya in Tom Stoppard's new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, and Perdita in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale which finished at The Old Vic in London, after a sellout run at Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and a world tour.

My Life in Art

Stanislavski spends most of this section describing in dramatic detail his relationship with Anton Chekhov and the productions of Chekhov's plays, beginning with their first production of "The Seagull", which had been originally staged in St. Petersburg, and ending with their production of "The Cherry Orchard" in 1904 and Chekhov's death that same year.

Old Tote Theatre Company

The University contributed six thousand pounds to convert the building into a theatre and its debut production, which opened on 2 February 1963, was a highly successful production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, starring Sophie Stewart and her husband Ellis Irving, with Gordon Chater as Yepihodov, John Bell as Trefimov and Ron Haddrick as Gayev, which ran for almost two months.

Peter Cambor

Cambor landed the lead as an expectant father on Notes from the Underbelly after the sitcom's creator had caught his performance in a Los Angeles production of The Cherry Orchard, opposite veteran actors Annette Bening and Alfred Molina.


see also

Howard Charles

Painting A Wall (Finborough Theatre), The hounding of David Olwale (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Three Sisters (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Local Stigmatic (Edinburgh Festival), Les Jeudis (Centre Pompidou,Paris), Twelfth Night, The Lunatic Queen, Taniko, Measure for measure, Le Cid, The Cherry Orchard and Winslow Boy.