"Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive...will be acted again and again" (New Statesman) In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces deeply rooted in history and the society in which they live. Their estate is hopelessly in debt and when urged to cut down their beautiful cherry orchard and sell the land for holiday cottages, they are confronted by an impossible decision. "At the time when The Cherry Orchard was written, the years before the revolution of 1905, Chekhov considered revolution in Russia irreversible and desirable." (Melchinger: Anton Chekhov)
- ISBN10 0486266826
- ISBN13 9780486266824
- Publish Date 1 February 2000 (first published 16 March 1978)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dover Publications Inc.
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English