Description |
1 online resource (153 minutes) |
Playing Time |
023323 |
Description |
video file |
Note |
Title from resource description page (viewed October 08, 2019). |
Credits |
Director, Howard Davies ; designer, Bunny Christie ; lighting designer, Neil Austin. |
Cast |
Emily Taaffe (Dunyasha), Conleth Hill (Lopakhin), Pip Carter (Yepihodov), Charity Wakefield (Anya), Zoë Wanamaker (Ranyevskaya), Claudie Blakley (Varya), James Laurenson (Gaev), Sarah Woodward (Charlotta), Tim McMullen (Simyonov-Pishchik), Gerald Kyd (Yasha), Kenneth Cranham (Firs), Mark Bonnar (Peya Trofimov). |
Event |
Recorded Olivier Theatre, Royal National Theatre 30 June 2011. |
Summary |
Ranyevskaya returns more or less bankrupt after ten years abroad. Luxuriating in her fading moneyed world and regardless of the increasingly hostile forces outside, she and her brother snub the lucrative scheme of Lopakhin, a peasant turned entrepreneur, to save the family estate. In so doing, they put up their lives to auction and seal the fate of the beloved orchard. Set at the very start of the twentieth century, Andrew Upton's new version of Chekhov's classic captures a poignant moment in Russia's history as the country rolls inexorably towards 1917. |
Language |
In English. |
Local Note |
Alexander Street Theatre Performance and Design Collection: National Theatre Collection |
Subject |
Families -- Russia -- Drama.
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Debt -- Russia -- Drama.
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Rich people -- Russia -- Drama.
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Russia -- Social conditions -- Drama.
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Genre/Form |
Filmed performances.
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Drama.
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Added Author |
Davies, Howard, 1945-2016, stage director.
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Upton, Andrew, editor.
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Royal National Theatre (Great Britain), production company.
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Added Title |
Vishnevyĭ sad. English
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Standard No. |
ASP4178211/marc |
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