Word: orchard
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...beginning of the American Repertory Theatre's production of The Cherry Orchard, Yermolai Lopakhin rouses himself in the middle of the night to greet a train. Although the businessperson wakes up, he seems to wake into a dream in which everything is slightly off-balance. Director Ron Daniels' airy, sweetly comic production emphasizes the imblances of Chekhov's picture of a changing world...
...interactions in the Ranevskaya household have shifted during the five-year absence of Madame Ranevskaya, who owns the orchard and the house that overlooks it. She left Russia for Paris after her young son drowned in the river outside the house, and has now been fetched home to attend to her mountainous debt. Madame Ranevskaya returns to her daughter Anya, who has maintained her childlike innocence while her older sister Varya has Maintained the household...
...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...
...ending, the peasants are becoming landowners, the servants are free to go, and the orchard will be chopped down and subdivided...
...orchard appears onstage--if the audience is willing to dream. Represented by reed-like fluorescent tubing, the cherry orchard lights up the stage but frustratingly is often blocked by other scenery. The other scenery includes two-dimensional cutouts of slanting houses, off-kilter columns standing alone on the floor, and floating window frames. With so many pieces, all of them rigged from above, George Tsypin's cluttered design has more traffic flying in and out than Logan Airport...