The Cherry Orchard
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The Cherry Orchard

Paperback – January 6, 2009

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Price
$15.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
128
Publisher
Grove Press
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0802144096
Dimensions
5.5 x 0.22 x 8.25 inches
Weight
3.53 ounces

Description

About the Author Tom Stoppard’s plays include Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, The Invention of Love, The Coast of Utopia , and Rock ’n’ Roll . In addition to The Cherry Orchard , Stoppard has adapted Chekhov’s The Seagull and Ivanov .

Features & Highlights

  • 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.

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HORRIBLE

The characters are super dull and there isn't even a clear, solid plot. This play is irrelevant in every sense of the word.
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Boring

Perhaps I just don't have the intellectual's ability to comprehend how this is considered literature. Maybe I need a literature teacher to point out to me all the attributes of it because I didn't get it nor why it would be recommended reading!

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