Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.

Set in late 19th-century Imperial Russia, this acclaimed stage production by KERA stars Yuki Amami and Yoshio Inoue in a moving adaptation filled with humor and heartbreak. Madame Ranevskaya returns to her cherry orchard estate after years abroad, where she is welcomed by her daughter Anya, her brother Gaev, and her adopted daughter Varya. But behind the joyful reunion lies a devastating truth: the family is drowning in debt. Lopakhin, a wealthy merchant born to former serfs, proposes a plan to save the estate, yet the family continues living extravagantly. As servants pursue complicated romances and the idealistic student Trofimov speaks of a new future, the day of the estate’s auction draws near. What fate awaits the beloved “Cherry Orchard”?

Acclaimed director Simon Stone and his stellar Korean cast bring striking originality to Chekhov’s classic, relocating The Cherry Orchard of old Russia to modern-day Korea. Doyoung Song, a chaebol heiress, returns from abroad to a free and defiant Seoul. Above all, her family business is in peril, threatening the future of her mansion. As the Songs grapple with their status and heritage in a rapidly changing world, quiet tensions unfold within their glass-walled home, and the family collapses into a poignant, beautiful mess.

The New York Times recently called Dmitry Krymov “one of the world’s finest theatermakers.” For this new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, the world-renowned Russian director collaborates with the Wilma’s acclaimed HotHouse Acting Company to reimagine one of theater’s enduring masterworks. What is it like to lose your home? The Cherry Orchard centers around a Russian family grappling with the potential foreclosure of their estate, and a community in transition as the old makes way for the new. Volleyballs and sunflower seeds fly, while a giant mechanical train station flipboard tells the future … plus more surprises await in Krymov’s inventive re-interpretation. One family is in danger of losing their home, their comfort, and their power. What comes next … and who will profit?

Bringing together one of the world’s great classic plays with one of Ireland’s greatest writers, Druid present Tom Murphy’s version of Chekhov’s masterpiece The Cherry Orchard at Black Box Theatre, Galway and Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin. A play about land, legacy, and the struggle between tradition and change, this is the first major production of Tom Murphy’s work since his death in 2018.

A stage production of Anton Chekhov's play at the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre.

Television version of the performance by the "Lenkom" Theatre. Based on the comedy by A.P. Chekhov.

Based on A. Chekov's play of the same name.

A production of the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR.

Based on the play of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.