| The Cherry Orchard Contributor(s): Chekhov, Anton (Author), Frayn, Michael (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0413393402 ISBN-13: 9780413393401 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Drama | American - General - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 812.6 |
| LCCN: 78321225 |
| Series: Modern Plays |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 4.7" W x 7.2" (0.10 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive...will be acted again and again (New Statesman) In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces deeply rooted in history and the society in which they live. Their estate is hopelessly in debt and when urged to cut down their beautiful cherry orchard and sell the land for holiday cottages, they are confronted by an impossible decision. At the time when The Cherry Orchard was written, the years before the revolution of 1905, Chekhov considered revolution in Russia irreversible and desirable. (Melchinger: Anton Chekhov) |
Contributor Bio(s): Chekhov, Anton: - Anton Chekhov was born in 1860 in a small town on the Sea of Azov. His plays include Ivanov, Platonov, Uncle Vanya, On the High Road, and The Proposal, among others. As he was beginning to gain international recognition as a major dramatist, he suffered two heart attacks and died in Badenweiler, Germany.Frayn, Michael: - Michael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Headlong, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist, and Spies, which received the Whitbread Fiction Award. He has also written a memoir, My Father's Fortune, and fifteen plays, among them Noises Off and Copenhagen, which won three Tony Awards. He lives just south of London. |