The Cherry Orchard (Oberon Classics Hardback Series)

by PeterGill (Editor), Andrzej Klimowski (Editor), A . P . Chekhov (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $4.49

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $14.58

  Mamet discusses the real theme of Chekhov's play and presents his own version of the story in which a Russian aristocratic family is forced to sell its estate to the son of a peasant.

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $16.10

  Anton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theatre. Robert Burstein declared that there are none who bring the drama to a higher realization of its human role. In The Cherry Orchard, his last full-length play, an impoverished landowning family is unable to face the fact that their estate is about to be auctioned off. Lopakhin, a local merchant, presents numerous options to save it, including cutting down their prized cherry orchard. But the family is stricken with denial. The Cherry Orchard charts the precipitous descent of a wealthy family and in the process creates a bold meditation on social change and bourgeois materialism.