The Cherry Orchard

Following their widely admired productions of Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, the highly acclaimed Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory make their debut visit to the Rose with Chekhov’s final tragic-comic masterpiece, The Cherry Orchard.

The cast includes Julia Hills (2 Point 4 Children, Dad, and original cast member of Calendar Girls) who plays the feckless matriarch, Ranevskaya and Simon Armstrong, who starred in the recent SATTF/Bristol Old Vic production of The Misanthrope, who plays Lopakhin.

On Wednesday and Friday evenings, there will be a special post-show performance in the Rose’s Culture Café of Chekhov’s celebrated 15 minute monologue, On The Evils of Tobacco, performed by Paul Brendan. The hen-pecked Nyukhin tries to obey his wife’s command to lecture us on the evils of tobacco but only succeeds in revealing the comic absurdities of his life.