The Cherry Orchard: Funny ha-ha or funny sob-sob? Chekhov, dying of tuberculosis, thought he'd written a comedy so broad it was, "in places, almost a farce." Andrei Belgrader, veteran interpreter of the absurd, unearths plenty of comic anarchy in John Christopher Jones's freewheeling new translation, and sics his starry cast—including Dianne Wiest, John Turturro, Josh Hamilton, and Juliet Rylance—on an unsuspecting audience in a joyous new production that tickles the funny bone and thrills the soul ... right before crushing it.
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