The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov
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The Cherry Orchard

Author: Anton Chekhov

Narrator: Jordan Baker

Unabridged: 1 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Findaway

Published: 01/01/2001

Genre: Drama - Russian & Former Soviet Union

Synopsis

Chekhovs masterful last play, The Cherry Orchard, is a work of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family and their struggle to maintain their status in a changing world. Alternately touching and farcical, this subtle, intelligent play stars the incomparable Marsha Mason. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring: Marsha Mason as Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranyevskaya Hector Elizondo as Leonid Andreyevich Gayev Michael Cristofer as Yermolay Alekseyevich Lopakhin Jennifer Tilly as Dunyasha (Avdotya Fyodorovna) Joey Slotnick as Semyon Panteleyevich Yepikhodov Christy Keefe as Anya Ranyevskaya Amy Pietz as Varya Ranyevskaya Jordan Baker as Charlotta Ivanovna Jeffrey Jones as Boris Borisovich Semyonov-Pischick Charles Durning as Feers John Chardiet as Yasha Tim DeKay as Pyotr Sergeyevich Trofimov John Chardiet as Passer-By Translated and adapted by Frank Dwyer and Nicholas Saunders. Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles. Coauthors: Adapted By Frank Dwyer & Nicholas Saunders

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