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Belvoir’s The Cherry Orchard is a laugh-out-loud tragedy for uncertain times
In 1904, when Anton Chekhov wrote his last and greatest play, The Cherry Orchard, Russia was still 13 years away from the Bolshevik Revolution.
But the conditions for those future events were already all around him.
- Huw Griffiths
- The Conversation
Rapid industrialisation and urbanisation had ensured old …