The Cherry Orchard
A Literature, Theatre, Drama book. Dar cti oameni snt, frate, n Rusia, care nici nu...
Chekov's great tragicomic eulogy for a passing way of life is superbly adapted to make a powerful and beautifully playable drama. Plays for Performance Series About The Author: Contributor Bio: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Chekhov was a playwright and master of the short story. He studied medicine at Moscow, and began to write while a student. His first book of stories in 1886 was successful, and gradually adopted writing as a profession. Contributor Bio:...
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- Pages: 64 pages
- ISBN: 9780486266824 / 486266826
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Dar cti oameni snt, frate, n Rusia, care nici nu stiu de ce snt pe pmnt! Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard // We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it forever. And the only way we can redeem our past is by suffering and by giving ourselves over to exceptional labor, to steadfast and endless labor. Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard // Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive. Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard //
everyone This play is one of the most desperately sad things I have ever seen. It is a portrait of a family struggling in a period where old and new russia are scraping up against each other in a way that is physically painful to watch. I saw a performance of this while on study abroad at Oxford, and I went to a bookstore after the performance... Its true what they say. Chekhovs got guns!This is a great play about the decline of the Russian aristocracy, its implications for the working class rising to fill the vacancies left by those cash-stricken families, and the complications propagated by these changes, namely the social inadequacies of those who get sucked into this newfound...
