Word: orchard
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Fruits which that unknown orchard bore...
...stoves. About the only ones who have not profited are the citrus growers, who complain that they are unable to compete with Israeli industries in the high wage market. "If we speak sharply to the workers," complains Mustafa Hussein Nazzal, Kalkilya's Arab mayor and a prominent orchard owner, "they quit and find jobs in Israel...
There was a perfect production of The Cherry Orchard in New York earlier this year, with a black cast headed by James Earl Jones and Earle Hyman. By comparison, this production naturally seems even paler than it would alone...
Anton Chekhov. An aristocratic family of spent means and etiolated will is about to lose its ancestral home and beloved cherry orchard. By symbolic extension, the privileged are about to lose all of Russia. Everyone has his favorite Chekhov play, but no one has ever seriously denied that this is one of the greatest plays in the entire history of dramatic art. It is a daunting venture for any group of actors, and especially for an all-black cast such as this, since black actors have had such meager opportunities to play classic roles. Insofar as this production at Joseph...
...roles in this Cherry Orchard are miscast, not as to skill, but in terms of temperament. Madame Ra-nevskaya, who cannot bring herself to uproot the orchard and build a housing development, ought to be enveloped in actressy vanity and a flighty inability to cope. Yet Gloria Foster displays little vanity and seems to possess such granitic strength as to have sold the estate and axed the first cherry tree herself. Lopakin, the son of a serf, who buys the Ranevskaya property at auction, is played a shade too unctuously by James Earl Jones, who also lacks the quality...