La Cerisaie

Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, DublinIn Chekhov’s tragi-comedy – perhaps his most popular play – the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces, forces rooted deep in history and in the society around them. Their estate is hopelessly in urged to cut down their beautiful cherry orchard and sell the land for holiday cottages, they struggle to act decisively. Tom Murphy’s fine vernacular version allows us to re-imagine the events of the play in the last days of Anglo-Irish colonialism. It gives this great play vivid new life within our own history and social consciousness.