{"product_id":"the-cherry-orchard-9781350086029","title":"The Cherry Orchard","description":"\u003cp\u003eA civilised and complacent culture is on the brink of collapse... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe tide of change is coming. Madam Ranyevskaya's liberal world of privilege and pleasure is beginning to show cracks, but she and her family live on in denial. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLopakhin wants to rescue Ranyevskaya. The hard-working son of one of her family's serfs, his new-found wealth can offer shelter and security to the woman he has loved since boyhood, but it will come at a high price.\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, revolution hangs in the air, the poor and hungry are pushing at the doors, and the tutor Trofimov predicts a tumultuous change for everybody. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChekhov's final masterpiece is full of wild humour and piercing sadness in this fresh, funny and honest new translation by award-winning playwright and Russian speaker Rory Mullarkey. A portrait of changing times, it maps the building tensions between the desperate longing to hold onto what is familiar and the restless lure of the new.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnton Chekhov\u003c\/b\u003e (1860-1904), Russian physician, dramatist and author, is considered to be one of the greatest writers of short stories and modern drama. Born in Taganrog, a port town near the Black Sea, he attended medical school at Moscow University. He began writing to supplement his income, writing short humorous sketches of contemporary Russian life. A successful literary careered followed, before his premature death of TB at the age of 44. He is best-remembered for his four dramatic masterpieces: \u003ci\u003eThe Seagull\u003c\/i\u003e (1896), \u003ci\u003eUncle Vanya\u003c\/i\u003e (1899), \u003ci\u003eThree Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e (1901) and \u003ci\u003eThe Cherry Orchard\u003c\/i\u003e (1904). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRory Mullarkey\u003c\/b\u003e graduated in 2009 from Cambridge, after which he studied at the State Theatrical Arts Academy of St. Petersburg. A translator of Russian Drama, Mullarkey's translations have been produced by the ADC Theatre, The Royal Court and the Free Theatre of Belarus. Plays include \u003ci\u003eSingle Sex \u003c\/i\u003e(Royal Exchange); \u003ci\u003eRemembrance Day \u003c\/i\u003e(Royal Court), \u003ci\u003eTourism \u003c\/i\u003e(Headlong) and \u003ci\u003eCome To Where I'm From\u003c\/i\u003e (Paines Plough). Mullarkey spent 2010 as Writer-on-Attachment at the Royal Court Theatre, London, and 2011 as the Pearson Writer in Residence at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. His \u003ci\u003eThe Grandfathers\u003c\/i\u003e was programmed as part of the National Theatre's 2012 \u003ci\u003eConnections: Plays for Young People\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2014, Rory Mullarkey won the Harold Pinter Playwriting Prize, the George Devine Award (jointly with Alice Birch) and the James Tait Black Prize for Drama for his play \u003ci\u003eCannibals\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Methuen Drama.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298603106578,"sku":"9781350086029","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e200fad5-5a36-4972-aca2-24c5f92a1b18.jpg?v=1748591699","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-cherry-orchard-9781350086029","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}