It has been announced that The Hampstead Players are staging a production of The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (translated by Julius West and edited by Bill Risebero) at the Hampstead Parish Church later this month. The production runs for four performances between Tuesday 25th and Saturday 30th November 2013.
The Play is set around 1900 on the country estate of Madame Ranyevskaya. She has just returned after five years in Paris to face a crisis. The family fortunes are waning and the estate, with its historic orchard and its poignant family memories, may have to be sold to pay the debts. Lopakhin, the former serf now made rich, advises how to develop the estate to avoid bankruptcy.
But indecision rules. The family, their household and their friends are confused by social changes of 19th century Russia and the challenges they bring, not only to their ways of life - what to do with the estate, whether to stay or to go – but also to their personal relationships.
Ideas about love are central to the play – love of people or things, love of self or of others, love of the remembered past, or of the unknown future, love of the idea of being in love, or love of the idea of not being in love at all.
Please visit www.hampsteadplayers.org.uk for further information and tickets.
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