Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at Hafez Hall

The Cherry Orchard is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first published by Znaniye, and came out as a separate edition later that year in Saint Petersburg, via A.F. Marks Publishers.

The play revolves around an aristocratic Russian landowner who returns to her family estate (which includes a large and well-known cherry orchard) just before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage. Unresponsive to offers to save the estate, she allows its sale to the son of a former serf; the family leaves to the sound of the cherry orchard being cut down. The story presents themes of cultural futility – both the futile attempts of the aristocracy to maintain its status and of the bourgeoisie to find meaning in its new-found materialismI  and  dramatizes the socioeconomic forces in Russia at the turn of the 20th century, including the rise of the middle class after the abolition of serfdom in the mid-19th century and the decline of the power of the aristocracy

 

This show is based on the play " The Cherry Orchard" written by  Chekhov and Sajad Ahmadlou, Parvaneh Amiri, Amirreza Babavalian, Amirali Zamaniyan, Morteza Sobhani, Behnaz Saeedi, Mohammad Amir Shayghi, Henghame Moalem, Habib Mousavi, Niki Mirsadeghi and Sepideh Noorsalehi play roles.

The crew: Ehsan Falahatpisheh (stage and light designer), Parisa Sojoudi (costume designer), Ashkan Ghazanchai (graphic designer), Kamyar Mohebi (sound designer), Amirreza Babavalian (project manager), Bahare Baranji, Helia Khadem and Arash Tehrani (director unit), Mehdi Emadi and Homa Mirzaei (photo), Mehdi Emadi (teaser production) and Reza Rezaei and Omid Khakpour (stage management).