THE CHERRY ORCHARD. Director Andron Konchalovskiy

Famous film and theatre director Andron Konchalovsky about his new production:                                      

“The Cherry Orchard” is the final note to the great legacy of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. He worked on the text being seriously ill and said with sad humor that according to his medical account he cheated on death for minimum three years. Knowing that the end is close he decided to bid life farewell merrily, that is why he wrote “The Cherry Orchard” as a comedy.

A genius’s last joke…

However most directors, including Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, interpreted the play as a drama.

Members of the Art Theatre troupe could not hold back their tears during the first reading, and this is understandable. Every word touched their hearts with the voice of their beloved and close friend, whose health was fatally at risk.

Actually even the later attempts to understand what kind of humor may exist in this play rarely seemed convincing. Our “Cherry Orchard” is the final part of the trilogy we have been working on during the past 8 years.

This is one more attempt to get a little closer to Chekhov’s perception of his heroes and life at whole, the life he loved greatly…

I can only hope that our efforts to hear Chekhov’s true voice were not futile…

“The Cherry Orchard” is the final part of the Chekhov trilogy presented on the stage of the Mossovet Theatre, which started with “Uncle Vanya” (2009) and “The Three Sisters” (2012).

This trilogy is a unique project of the director, who is also the production designer of all three performances which exist within one scenic dimension with variations but unitary at whole.

One actors team is featured in the triptych, the core group of all three productions includes Yulia Vysotskaya, Aleksander Domogarov, Aleksander Bobrovsky, Larisa Kuznetsova, Galina Bob.

Starring in “The Cherry Orchard” among the mentioned: Yulia Khlynina, Ekaterina Vanchugova, Vitaliy Kischenko, Evgeniy Ratkov, Vladidmir Goryushin, Aleksandra Kuzenkina, Anton Anosov.