La Cérisaie: a performance that feels like a workshop might need a director!
The Cherry Orchard
A TG Stan production, NAC French theatre
There are probably few plays as challenging, thrilling and intriguing for
artists as The Cherry Orchard. It’s been a little over a century that theater directors have been trying to decide whether it is a tragedy, comedy, or something in between. Anton Chekhov himself intended to write a comedy, but Konstantin Stanislavski, who was the first director to put the play on stage in 1904 in Moscow believed it to be a tragedy. So, it’s been more than 100 years that one of the greatest dramas by one of the greatest playwrights of all time keeps changing genre and mood, and being interpreted and reinvented by numerous theater artists all over the world. …