
The Cherry Orchard
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Narrated by:
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Marsha Mason
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full cast
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By:
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Anton Chekhov
Chekhov’s 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. Translated and adapted by Frank Dwyer and Nicholas Saunders.
Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
Directed by Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
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
Tim DeKay as Pyotr Sergeyevich Trofimov
John Chardiet as Passer-By
Sound Effects Artist/Stage Manager: Jane Slater
Assistant Stage Manager: Cary Thompson
Radio Producer: Raymond Guarna
Associate Producer: Susan Raab
Public Domain (P)2001 L.A. Theatre Works. Produced in association with KCRW. All Rights Reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Not really. I couldn't follow the play just listening to it. The complicated Russian names did me in. I went to the library and got the print verson.What was one of the most memorable moments of The Cherry Orchard (Dramatized)?
I really don't have a memorable moment because I kept falling asleep.What does Marsha Mason and Full Cast bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I did enjoy listening to the recognizable voices.Was The Cherry Orchard (Dramatized) worth the listening time?
I have listened to many plays by L.A. Theater Works and enjoyed all of them. I enjoyed them more than just reading the play. In this case, the dramatized version didn't work for me.Any additional comments?
I think it is best to see Chekhov performed on stage. If you are very familiar with this playwright than this audio version might appeal to you.Not for the Chekov Novice
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too hard to follow characters in play format
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One can occasionally hear the audience laughing in the background, and although one might imagine that this will take away from the experience, it in actual fact enhances it enormously. It really feels as though you are sitting in the theatre, enjoying the play along with many other people (the way that a play is meant to be experienced, in the first place).
Wonderfully Vibrant Production
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Not raised to deal with the realities of a practical life, this endearing family manages to accept their fate with an aristocratic grace and humour as they are forced to sell their ancestral land.
Charming
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Acts are in the wrong order
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