Word: orchard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHERRY ORCHARD by ANTON CHEKHOV...
...Chekhov's plays extraordinary things usually happen in the most ordinary ways. Not so in the revival of The Cherry Orchard at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center. Director Andrei Serban emblazons even quite ordinary moments with extraordinary stage effects. Symbolic figures stalk in and out, backgrounds loom hugely, movement flows into patterns and tableaux. The results are bold, sometimes beautiful, but only partly successful...
...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...
...Italian gossip magazines because of his stormy love affairs. Not that he has all that much time to himself. Last week, while La Scala and the Paris Opéra were proudly introducing his work to U.S. audiences, Strehler was in Paris rehearsing Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. He was too busy to come...
...diamond district, one of the world's largest. Here diamond merchants, among them Hasidic Jews in black garb, pull around tens of thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry in black suitcases on wheels. Discounts are large and bargaining is advisable. Down on the Lower East Side, on Orchard, Grand, Canal and nearby streets, stores offer first-quality, name-brand merchandise (shoes, linens, handbags, clothing, for the most part) at discounts that average from 20% to 25% and sometimes more...