THE CHERRY ORCHARD
By Anton Chekhov
In a new version by Benedict Andrews
The orchard's white, all white. You haven't forgotten, have you, Lyuba? The avenue lined with trees, unfurling like a slender ribbon. And on moonlit nights, it shimmers. You remember, don't you? You haven't forgotten?
Can anyone persuade Ranevskaya and her aristocratic household that the world is changing, and they must too?
Following internationally acclaimed productions of The Seagull (Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney) and Three Sisters (Young Vic, London), director Benedict Andrews has a reputation as one of the world's leading interpreters of Chekhov.
For the Donmar Warehouse he stages the great writer's final play. It's a work that predicted and captured the end of an era, but is timeless in its humanity, prescience, humour and pathos. The Cherry Orchard is Chekhov's masterpiece.
This edition was published to coincide with its world premiere at London's Donmar Warehouse in April 2024.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cherry-orchard-9781350501744/
Performance Rights: Judy Daish Associates Limited
by Anton Chekhov
in a new version by Benedict Andrews
In a remote Russian town, Olga, Masha and Irina long for life in Moscow – but their plans go nowhere. Disaster, deception, meaningless self-sacrifice – in Chekhov’s heartbreaking masterpiece, each new twist of fate sees the sisters’ control over their destiny slip away. This compelling version of the Russian classic by renowned Australian director Benedict Andrews premiered at the Young Vic on 8 September 2012.
Benedict Andrews’ version of Three Sisters was third in the Guardian’s top ten best theatre picks of 2012.
‘Up there with the best ever Three Sisters… a sensational breakthrough and a poetic revelation at the same time, and in its own gloriously idiosyncratic manner.’ What’s On Stage
‘A bracingly original vision: [Andrews] turns the play inside out, bashes it around, and drops in anachronisms, yet his approach yields revelatory results. In the end, against the odds, this is a moving and absorbing Three Sisters’ Evening Standard
‘Profoundly moving… Chekhov refreshed and reimagined.’ Guardian
‘Energising, modern… grabs some of the most thorny Chekhov questions about human existence with a firm unsentimental grip’ Huffington Post
https://www.oberonbooks.com/three-sisters-3912.html
Performance Rights: Judy Daish Associates Limited
by Jean Genet
in a new version by Benedict Andrews & Andrew Upton
When their Mistress is not home, the maids, Claire and Solange, dress up in her clothes and play at being her. Deadly game, erotic fantasy, sadomasochistic ritual. Tonight, they go all the way.
https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571331550-the-maids.html
Performance Rights: Judy Daish Associates Limited
by Anton Chekhov
in a new version by Benedict Andrews
The Seagull is Chekhov’s extraordinary gathering of a group of bruised and incandescent dreamers who cannot, no matter how they try, get what they want. It is also one of the masterpieces of theatre about theatre; an exploration of how telling stories and coining symbols interacts with life.
Performance Rights : Judy Daish Associates Limited