"You'll forgive me, but you all are the most simple-minded people, the most impractical, the strangest people I've ever met. I tell you, 'Your estate will be sold,' plain and simple, and you still don't get it....I'm either going to scream, or yell, or have a fit. I can't take it! You're killing me!"
-Lopakin
-Lopakin
Anton Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard on the brink of the Russian Revolution and just before his own (very early) death. The characters live in a society that attempts the leap from feudalism to communism in a few decades; the personal struggles of a generation old before its time are played out against a landscape of social upheaval. The result is both funny and heartbreaking: the advent of the modern tragicomedy. Featuring Marsha Harman (Helena/ A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cassius/Julius Caesar) as Madame Ranevskya. Bakerloo Theater project performs Curt Columbus' translation of Cherry Orchard.