The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard is Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, just months before the author's death, in a production directed by Konstantin Stanislavski. The playwright's wife Olga Knipper played Madame Ranevskaya in this production, as well as in the 300th production of the play by the theatre in 1943.

Dramatis personæ

• Lubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya, a landowner
• Anya, her daughter, aged seventeen
• Varya (Barbara), her adopted daughter, aged twenty-seven
• Leonid Andreyevitch Gaev, Mme. Ranevsky's brother
• Ermolai Alexeyevitch Lopakhin, a merchant
• Peter Sergeyevitch Trofimov, a student
• Boris Borisovitch Simeonov-Pischin, a landowner
• Charlotta Ivanovna, a governess
• Simeon Panteleyevitch Epikhodov, a clerk
• Dunyasha (Avdotya Fedorovna), a maidservant
• Fiers, an old footman, aged eighty-seven
• Yasha, a young footman
• A tramp
• A station-master
• Post-office clerk
• Guests
• A servant