The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard

Plays

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead *

Enter a Free Man * · The Real Inspector Hound *

After Magritte * · Jumpers * · Travesties *

Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land *

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour *

Night and Day · Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth *

Undiscovered Country

(adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s Das weite Land)

On the Razzle

(adapted from Johann Nestroy’s Einen Jux will er sich machen)

The Real Thing · Rough Crossing

(adapted from Ferenc Molnár’s Play at the Castle)

Dalliance (adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s Liebelei)

Hapgood · Arcadia

Indian Ink (an adaptation of In the Native State)

The Invention of Love * · Voyage: The Coast of Utopia Part I *

Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Part II *

Salvage: The Coast of Utopia Part III *

Rock ‘n‘ Roll *

Television Scripts

A Separate Peace · Teeth · Another Moon Called Earth

Neutral Ground · Professional Foul · Squaring the Circle

Radio Plays

The Dissolution of Dominic Boot

“M” Is for Moon Among Other Things

If You’re Glad, I’ll Be Frank · Albert’s Bridge

Where Are They Now? · Artist Descending a Staircase

The Dog It Was That Died · In the Native State

On Dover Beach

Screenplays

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Shakespeare in Love (with Marc Norman)

Fiction

Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon*

*Available from Grove Press

The Cherry Orchard

A Comedy in Four Acts

BY

ANTON CHEKHOV

ENGLISH VERSION

BY TOM STOPPARD

From a Literal Translation by Helen Rappaport

Grove Press

New York

Adaptation copyright © 2009 by Tom Stoppard

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Tom Stoppard’s English version of The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov had its first performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater, Brooklyn, New York, on 2 January 2009, and its UK premiere at The Old Vic Theatre, London, on 23 May 2009 and was presented by The Bridge Project, a collaboration of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Old Vic, and Neal Street Productions.

The cast in order of appearance was as follows:

DUNYASHACharlotte Parry

LOPAKHINSimon Russell Beale

YEPIKHODOVTobias Segal

ANYAMorven Christie

RANEVSKAYASinéad Cusack

VARYARebecca Hall

GAEVPaul Jesson

CHARLOTTA IVANOVNASelina Cadell

SIMEONOV-PISHCHIKDakin Matthews

YASHA Josh Hamilton

FIRSRichard Easton

TROFIMOVEthan Hawke

PASSER-BYGary Powell

STATION MASTERMark Nelson

POST OFFICE CLERKAaron Krohn

GUESTS, SERVANTSMichael Braun, Aaron Krohn, Jessica Pollert Smith, and Hannah Stokely

DirectorSam Mendes

Set designAnthony Ward

Costume designCatherine Zuber

Lighting designPaul Pyant

Sound designPaul Arditti

MusicMark Bennett

THE CHERRY ORCHARD

LIST OF CHARACTERS

RANEVSKAYA, Liubov Andreevna, a landowner

ANYA, her daughter, seventeen years old

VARYA, her adopted daughter, twenty-four years old

GAEV, Leonid Andreevich, Ranevskaya’s brother

LOPAKHIN, Yermolai Alekseevich, a businessman

TROFIMOV, Pyotr Sergeevich, a student

SIMEONOV-PISHCHIK, Boris Borisovich, a landowner

CHARLOTTA IVANOVNA, a governess

YEPIKHODOV, Semyon Panteleevich, a clerk

DUNYASHA, a housemaid

FIRS, a manservant, eighty-seven years old

YASHA, a young manservant

PASSER-BY

STATION MASTER

POST OFFICE CLERK

GUESTS, SERVANTS

ACT ONE

A room which is still called the nursery. One of the doors leads into Anya’s room. Daybreak, just before sunrise. It is May but still cold, with a morning frost. LOPAKHIN has fallen asleep over a book. A train is approaching at a distance, slowing down. It gets closer and louder, still slowing. At its closest approach, not proximate, Lopakhin stirs, still asleep. The book falls from his lap. Still slowing but receding now, the train gives a quite distant warning whistle of imminent arrival. Lopakhin wakes, collecting himself, then cross with himself. The train is no longer heard. DUNYASHA enters, surprised to see Lopakhin there.

DUNYASHAI thought you’d gone to the station.

LOPAKHINThank God the train’s in at last. What time is it?

DUNYASHANearly two (she blows out the candle) It’s already light.

LOPAKHINSo it’s, what, two hours late. More. (he yawns and stretches) Well, what a fool I am. Came all this way specially to meet them off the train, and fell asleep sitting here. You should have woken me.

DUNYASHAI thought you’d gone.

Pause.

LOPAKHIN (pensive)Liubov Andreevna Ranevskaya . . .

Pause.

LOPAKHIN (cont.)I wonder what she’s like now after five years living abroad. She’s a good woman. An easy, straightforward sort of person. Once, when I was just a kid, fifteen or so, my father, he’s dead now but he used to have a shop in the village, well, he thumped me in the face, my nose was bleeding like a tap. We’d come into the yard out there (he gestures) for some reason, and he was drunk. Liubov Andreevna—I can see her now, she was a skinny little thing when she was young—she brought me indoors, into this very room, it was the nursery. She takes me over to the washstand. “Don’t cry, little peasant,” she says, “it’ll be better in time for your wedding.”

Pause.

LOPAKHIN (cont.)“Little peasant.” Son of a peasant, true enough, and here I am in a white waistcoat and fancy shoes like a pig in a parlour, only rich, with money to spend but look twice and I’m still a peasant to a peasant.