![]() There is a sense in which, to him, life remains a game, a diversion, a series of moves where the outcome isn’t especially important (as his casual approach to finding a solution to the family’s financial trouble reveals).īut what makes The Cherry Orchard such a rich and enjoyable piece of drama is the faint hint of the absurd in such details, so that they simultaneously operate on a symbolically true, but also borderline farcical, level. ![]() Other symbolic touches are easier to decipher: Gaev’s obsession with miming billiards and describing tricky moves in the game is symptomatic of the sort of life he has led: unlike Lopahin and other (former) serfs, he has enjoyed a life of leisure and hasn’t had to work hard for a living. T he Cherry Orchard is a play by Anton Chekhov in which impoverished landowner Lyuba Ranevskaya and her family must choose to either sell off their land or raze their cherry orchard in. ![]() As Pennington and Unwin note, this is a comic moment, but it is comic because it foreshadows later twentieth-century plays by Pinter and Beckett, being almost proto-absurdist in its tone. By the same token, Ranevskaya, for all her attachment to the house and the cherry orchard, nevertheless leaves it at the end having forgotten Firs, her loyal servant, leaving him behind on his own. He walks onstage after everyone else has left, quietly muttering about how life has left him by. Full Title The Cherry Orchard: A Comedy in Four Acts Author Anton Chekhov Type of Work Play Genre Comedy (satirical, ironic, often concerned with marriage proposals) Tragedy (involving catastrophic loss as a result of the protagonists weakness) Language Russian Time and place written From 1901 to 1903, in Yalta, an island in the Mediterranean. ![]()
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