The Cherry Orchard

Presented by Macalester College Theatre and Dance

Main Stage Theater in the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center 1600 Grand Ave. St. Paul
55105
United States

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Drama, Comedy

The Macalester College Theatre and Dance Department presents The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, as the last theatre production on the historical Janet Wallace mainstage.  Forty students, faculty, guest artists and alumni have been working on the show since early September.  There are only three (3) performances:  November 2nd, 3rd, and 4th at 7:30pm.  The Cherry Orchard will be followed on November 17-18 by the last dance concert on the stage -- and then the building will be evacuated, with demolition beginning in early December. 

The Cherry Orchard was Chekhov’s last play.  A formerly aristocratic family is mired in debt, and they must sell their estate, let their servants go, and adapt to the new twentieth century.  Chekhov wrote the play while he knew he was dying of tuberculosis, and the play is full of foreboding about change, and hope for the future.  The famous characters are nostalgic for their lost leisure and courageous as they face new ways of life.  Beth Cleary, the production’s director, chose the play because of its concentration on endings -- and beginnings.