The Cherry Orchard : a comedy in four acts /
Anton Chekhov ; English version by Tom Stoppard from a literal translation by Helen Rappaport.
- New York : Grove Press, 2009.
- 82 p. ; 21 cm.
In The Cherry orchard, his last full-length play, and improverished 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 sticken 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.