Word: orchard
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...that must be ripped off to reveal the unconscious, irrational blood flow of the play. The dramatist is presumed unable to capture the Id of his work in words, so the director imposes a distracting new subtext that blurs, blots out or mangles the real text. In The Cherry Orchard, earlier this season, Serban altered the living space of Chekhov's drama to a kind of surrealistic all-white silo in which Mme. Ranevskaya ricocheted around without any discern ible contact with her beloved home...
...Milwaukee suburb, let plant life take its course when he moved into a house on 2½ acres in the town's Sun Shadows West subdivision. Hagar put in some wild Wisconsin prairie grass and let nature do the rest. The result: knee-high waves of goldenrod, aster, orchard grass and fleabane. Instead of a sputtering power mower, meadow larks, foxes and pheasants roam the Hagar yard...
...Cherry Orchard...
...because he could not water them. Paul Pehrson's 20 acres of orange trees are literally dying before his eyes. "It would take me ten to 15 years to get started again," he says. "I can't face starting all over again." The only immediate remedy for orchard growers was an offer from a company in Los Angeles to provide water at nearly $90 per acre-foot (the usual price: $5). "I couldn't afford to pay that," said Walnut Grower Charles Jasper. "It would come to $27,000 a year, I figure...
...play's tragic relief is supplied by the wrenching pathos of the orchard's owner, Madame Ranevskaya. In this role the production boasts the splendid Irene Worth. Hers is a memorable portrayal - extravagant, feckless, alluring, touchingly vulnerable. When she ritualistically halves the telegram from her erstwhile lover in Paris - slowly, pain fully, like a bandage - an entire life is caught between the past it cannot release and the future it cannot resist...