The Cherry Orchard

Chekhov’s masterful last play, The Cherry Orchard, is a work of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family and their struggle to maintain their status in a changing world. Alternately touching and farcical, this subtle, intelligent play stars the incomparable Marsha Mason. Translated and adapted by Frank Dwyer and Nicholas Saunders.  

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.  

Directed by Rosalind Ayres

Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg

Marsha Mason as Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranyevskaya

Hector Elizondo as Leonid Andreyevich Gayev

Michael Cristofer as Yermolay Alekseyevich Lopakhin

Jennifer Tilly as Dunyasha (Avdotya Fyodorovna)

Joey Slotnick as Semyon Panteleyevich Yepikhodov

 Christy Keefe as Anya Ranyevskaya

Amy PIetz as Varya Ranyevskaya

Jordan Baker as Charlotta Ivanovna

Jeffrey Jones as Boris Borisovich Semyonov-Pischick

Charles Durning as Feers

Tim DeKay as Pyotr Sergeyevich Trofimov

John Chardiet as Passer-By

Sound Effects Artist/Stage Manager: Jane Slater

Assistant Stage Manager: Cary Thompson

Radio Producer: Raymond Guarna

Associate Producer: Susan Raab