![]() ![]() The house is looking rather worse for wear, the French windows have a pediment and are painted blue but the walls behind show all the pipework. Some of the servants have gone to meet the train carrying the family. Lopakhin (Martin Shaw) the descendant of serfs is there first onstage in The Cherry Orchard. This story may be apocryphal but I like its “matter of factness.”. However, when Chekhov was asked what The Cherry Orchard was about he said, Act One: they are wondering whether they will have to sell the cherry orchard Act Two: they are going to sell the cherry orchard Act Three: the cherry orchard is sold Act Four: what they do after the cherry orchard is sold. The cherry orchard loses its economic viability when there are no longer any serfs to pick the cherries. ![]() In this last of Chekhov’s four great plays, more than any of the others is the portrayal of Russia, ripe for a regime change with a new thrusting intelligentsia in conflict with the old land-owning class. ![]()
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