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Name: The Cherry Orchard
Author: Anton Chekhov

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Comedy Drama

The Cherry OrchardisChekhov’sfinal play. The plot revolves around a heavily indebted landowner, Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevsky, and her brother, Leonid Andreyevitch Gaev, as they attempt to save their estate, and its large cherry orchard, from being auctioned off to pay the mortgage. Lopahin, a wealthy merchant who’s uncomfortable with his lower-class background, accompanies them, suggesting grand business plans to revive the estate. Lyubov Andreyevna’s daughters, Anya and Varya, work to...

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Dramatis Personae

Madame Ranevsky (Lyubov Andreyevna) (the owner of the Cherry Orchard) Anya (her daughter, aged 17) Varya (her adopted daughter, aged 24) Gaev (Leonid Andreyevitch) (brother of Madame Ranevsky) Lopahin...

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Act 1

A room, which has always been called the nursery. One of the doors leads into Anya’s room. Dawn, sun rises during the scene. May, the cherry trees in flower, but it is cold in the garden with the fros...

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Act 2

The open country. An old shrine, long abandoned and fallen out of the perpendicular; near it a well, large stones that have apparently once been tombstones, and an old garden seat. The road to Gaev’s ...

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Act 3

A drawing-room divided by an arch from a larger drawing-room. A chandelier burning. The Jewish orchestra, the same that was mentioned in Act II, is heard playing in the anteroom. It is evening. In the...

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Act 4

Scene: Same as in First Act. There are neither curtains on the windows nor pictures on the walls: only a little furniture remains piled up in a corner as if for sale. There is a sense of desolation; n...

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