anton chekhov's cherry orchard
directed by darren gobert


Dalia Farmer
Darren Gobert
Alex Greenshields*
Ted Hewlett*
Terria Joseph*
Peter Judd*
Kaitlin Kratter
Jaqui Lynch
Laura Wickens*
*denotes member of A.E.A.

Costumes: Anna-Alisa Beloüs
Lights: Eric Chase
Projections: John Stuart
Set: Jung Griffin
Sound: Matt Griffin

The Connelly Theater
220 East 4th Street, NYC
$15/$12 Seniors & Students
Reservations:
212-414-7773 or
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November 2 -- 5pm
November 3 -- 8pm
November 8 -- 10pm
November 9 -- 8pm
November 14 -- 8pm
November 16 -- 2pm
November 23 -- 2pm

a JOVIAL CREW production
part of the CHEKHOV NOW festival

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the title The Cherry Orchard, like The Seagull, names something
that's gone by the time the curtain falls on the fourth act. in this
sense, the play dares us -- compels us even -- to destroy it, to send
Ranyevskaia mercilessly into the unknown while we turn her orchard
into a pile of debris.

in Jovial Crew's cover version of the play, the orchard is the
unadulterated text of Chekhov's comedy and the conventions of realism
that sustain it. we are the unscrupulous Lopakhin and the magical
Charlotta too, and the future -- and the axes -- are on our side. our
cherry orchard is The Cherry Orchard, and we must level it in order
to develop it. as Trofimov says, wild beasts are necessary to convert
one kind of matter into another, even if they have to devour
everything in their path.

with ten actors, two projectors, and one very noisy chainsaw, Jovial
Crew stages the traumatic comedy of the future's hungry march forward.

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