By Anton Checkov

Directed by Emilie Whelan

Choreographed by Erin Tracy

November 29- December 5, 2015

The Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre

La Jolla Playhouse

Director's Statement:

Why do we maintain memories when they have nothing in common with the present? And what is that awful feeling inside our heads when the lights come up at the end of an all night party we'll never forget? In Chekhov's final play The Cherry Orchard, written only months before his impending death at 44 years old, an estate and its memory stands vulnerable to progress. Heartsick love slings like mud, the drink pours strong, and music hides everywhere as the party just. keeps. trying. to. storm.

Viewpoints ricochet in The Cherry Orchard

Photos by Jim Carmondy