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Season 1 • Episode 84: Theatre: ' But please, this is a farce! ' The story of The Cherry Orchard • Watch with subtitles
Episode 84: Theatre: ' But please, this is a farce! ' The story of The Cherry Orchard
February 1, 1978
But please, this is a farce! ' The story of The Cherry Orchard CHEKHOV: '... It hasn't turned out a drama but as a comedy, in places even a farce.' STANISLAVSKY: ' ... I wept like a woman, I tried to control myself but I could not. I hear you say, " but please, this is a farce! " No, for the ordinary person, this is a tragedy.' With the advent of two major new productions of The Cherry Orchard, at the National Theatre and Riverside Studios, Arena: Theatre addresses itself to the recurring debate about Chekhov the ' comic' dramatist.
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