The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. First performed in by the Moscow Art Theatre under the direction of Stanislavski in 1904. First South African performance in 19** by **. Other productions by include one by John Fernald at the Alexander Theatre, starring his wife Jenny Laird, Siegfried Mynhardt, Patrick Mynhardt, Arthur Hall, Estelle Kohler and Fiona Fraser in 1963. **, **, Ken Leach directed a Baxter Company '78 production with Sandra Prinsloo, Merle Lifson, Michele Maxwell, Keith Grenville, Henry Goodman, Wilson Dunster, Simon Swindell, Marga van Rooy, Frantz Dobrowsky, Melanie-Ann Sher, Don Maguire, Pieter Geldenhuys, Roland Stafford. ** Translated into Afrikaans as Kersieboord by ** and first produced by ** in 19*. In 1979 an Afrikaans translation by **, entitled Die Kersietuinwas directed for PACT by Robert Mohr, with Rika Sennett, David van der Merwe, Wilna Snyman and Carel Trichardt

Janet Suzman wrote a radically adapted version of it, entitled A Free State, setting the play in South Africa (London, 19**?). Published by ** in 200*. Reza de Wet also borrowed heavily from the play for her own Three Sisters Two and Yelena.

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