The Cherry Orchard?

What was The Cherry Orchard before it was The Cherry Orchard? This tongue-in-cheek one person performance interrogates Chekhov's timeless canon with seemingly benign colorful children's toys. Employing collective memory, oral storytelling, and found object puppetry, it asks the question of who dared to draw these lines on the land to call it their own. Filled with painful baggage, can we still choose joy?

Cast & Crew

Performed by Ariel Urim Chung with Chaesong Kim
Dramaturgy by Begüm “Begsy” Inal
Lighting and Sound Design by Anthony Sertel Dean
Projection Design and Voice Direction by Lucky Bommireddy

Photographed by Anthony Sertel Dean

This was performed in the Schapiro Theater at Columbia University in October 2022