Age recommendation: 12+

This production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 30th June, 2011.

Ranyevskaya returns more or less bankrupt after ten years abroad. Luxuriating in her fading moneyed world and regardless of the increasingly hostile forces outside, she and her brother snub the lucrative scheme of Lopakhin, a peasant turned entrepreneur, to save the family estate. In so doing, they put up their lives to auction and seal the fate of the beloved orchard.

Set at the very start of the twentieth century, Andrew Upton’s new version of Chekhov’s classic captures a poignant moment in Russia's history as the country rolls inexorably towards 1917.

CAST

Dunyasha - Emily Taaffe

Lopakhin - Conleth Hill

Yepihodov - Pip Carter

Anya - Charity Wakefield

Ranyevskaya - Zoe Wanamaker

Varya - Claudie Blakley

Gaev - James Laurenson

Charlotta - Sarah Woodward

Simyonov-Pishchik - Tim McMullan

Yasha - Gerald Kyd

Firs - Kenneth Cranham

Peya Trofimov - Mark Bonnar

A Passer-by - Craige Els

The Station Master - Paul Dodds

Ensemble - Mark Fleischmann

Ensemble - Colin Haigh

Ensemble - Jessica Regan

Ensemble - Tim Samuels

Ensemble - Stephanie Thomas

Ensemble - Joseph Thompson

Ensemble - Rosie Thomson

Ensemble - Ellie Turner

CREATIVES

Director - Howard Davies

Author - Andrew Upton

Designer - Bunny Christie

Lighting Designer - Neil Austin

Music - Dominic Muldowney

Sound Designer - Paul Groothuis

Choreographer - Lynne Page