A homecoming. A picnic. A party. A leavetaking.
It’s an uncertain time. Change is coming, you can sniff it in the air.
A family returns to a home that’s seen better days – but it still has its orchard. Precious, beautiful, but…in the way. Chekhov’s great, last play needs no embellishment to describe our times. What orchards are we cutting down? What orchards are we planting?
Pamela Rabe leads a large cast from today’s Australia, in a classic as funny as it is profound. This promises to be one of the highlights of 2021.
"I’ve wanted to do this for years. With a richly talented gang of actors and after the year we’ve all lived through…it’s time for this beautiful, celebratory, moving play." – Eamon Flack (Belvoir's Artistic Director)
By: Anton Chekhov
Recommended age 15+
29th May, 2021
27th June, 2021
GETTING TO THE VENUE
BY TRAIN: The theatre is a five-minute walk from the Devonshire St/Chalmers St exit of Central Station.
BY LIGHT RAIL: The theatre is also a five-minute walk from Surry Hills Light Rail Stop and approximately seven-minute uphill walk from Chalmers Street Light Rail Stop.
BY BUS: Buses travel along Chalmers St, Elizabeth St and Cleveland St.
BY CAR: There is no onsite parking, but limited timed parking is available on the streets around the theatre. On Sundays parking is unlimited.
"Eamon Flack’s new version for Belvoir straddles the divide between comedy and tragedy perfectly... is both barely there and at the same time full of emotional and sensual life." The Australian
"Nothing illustrates Chekhov’s theme of inevitable change better than Flack’s cast, all of them wonderful." Limelight
"Mandela Mathia is a particularly potent Lopahkin…..It’s a performance of formidable focus." Limelight
Directed by: Eamon Flack
Cast: Peter Carroll, Priscilla Doueihy, Nadie Kammallaweera, Kirsty Marillier, Lucia Mastrantone, Mandela Mathia, Sarah Meacham, Josh Price, Pamela Rabe, Keith Robinson, Jack Scott, Charles Wu
Unfortunately, tickets for this event are no longer available.
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