The Cherry Orchard - by Anton Chekhov (Paperback)

About the Book

A fresh take on a classic by the Tony Award-winning playwright of The Humans.

Book Synopsis

A fresh take on a classic by the Tony Award-winning playwright of The Humans.

Review Quotes

"Mr. Karam's plays aren't tearful, but they are often about loss-of love, of health, of innocence-and the messy, haphazard, necessary ways we get on with our lives afterward . . . He specializes in painful comedies that really shouldn't be as funny as they are. Karam is a mature writer, very much in command of his gifts."

"Stephen Karam is among the very best of his generation of playwrights."

"The more you see Anton Chekhov's final play, the weirder it seems . . . The Cherry Orchard contains distinctly bizarre touches: unexplained offstage noises, ominous portents of revolution, and a morbid ending that's nearly Beckettian . . . Adapter Stephen Karam layers American accents (racial and immigration anxieties) into his lean, accessible script."

About the Author

Stephen Karam's play The Humans won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize. Other plays include Sons of the Prophet, a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the 2012 Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and Hull-Warriner awards for Best Play. Born and raised in Scranton, PA, he lives in New York City.