Word: dunyasha
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...owner's absence the bit players in the house have become mainstays, including Pyotr, the eternal student who was the drowned boy's tutor, and Dunyasha, the frazzled housemaid with her many suitors. The house about to undergo an even more major change: the beloved cherry orchard must be sold to pay the family's debts...
...Cherry Orchard is the most farcical of Chekhov's major works, and the cast (including George Voscovec, Raul Julia, Cathryn Damon, Marybeth Hurt and Michael Cristofer) whoops and tumbles through it with exaggerated zest. Especially delicious is Meryl Streep's housemaid Dunyasha, all borrowed gentility and sexual flutter...
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