The Cherry Orchard

A major new interpretation of Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece.

About the author

Richard Nelson's many plays include Rodney's Wife, Goodnight Children Everywhere, Drama Desk–nominated Franny's Way and Some Americans Abroad, Tony Award–nominated Two Shakespearean Actors, and James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and the acclaimed Apple Family Plays, a quartet of plays that include That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry and Regular Singing.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced acclaimed translations of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina won the 1991 and 2002 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prizes. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married to each other and live in Paris.

Product details

• Authors: Anton Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
• Assisted by: Dr Richard (Columbia University Nelson (Translation), Richard Nelson (Translation), Richard Pevear (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781559364843
• ISBN: 978-1-55936-484-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 211 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Series: Tcg Classic Russian Drama; TCG Classic Russian Drama Series; Tcg Classic Russian Drama
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies