Los Angeles Theater Review: THE CHERRY ORCHARD (Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice)
SOUR CHERRIES It's been 110 years since The Cherry Orchard premiered. While Chekhov insisted that his play about the fall of Russian aristocracy"and the fallout from the abolition of serfdom"was a comedy, director Constantin Stanislavski saw the now oft-produced, 14-character, 4-act script as a tragedy. Clearly, they are both correct. The tragicomedy centers on Ranevskaya, […]