Uncle Vanya Ouch!</poem> After a major zombie outbreak on the island of Oʻahu, a television network has turned Kennedy Theatre into a studio for their new reality show "Theatre Masterpieces and Zombies". The major challenge for the contestants on this show is to survive their performance of a classic play while fending off zombies released onto the stage by the popular host. After the success of last month's "The Tempest and Zombies", tonight's show will feature a classic example of Russian Realism, Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" (1897). "Uncle Vanya and Zombies" premiered in November 2012 at Kennedy Theatre in Honolulu. Over the
The Cherry Orchard In the darkness, Firs wanders into the room and discovers that they have left without him and boarded him inside the abandoned house to die. He lies down on the couch and resigns himself to this fate (apparently dying on the spot). Offstage we hear the axes as they cut down the cherry orchard. One of the main themes of the play is the effect social change has on people. The emancipation of the serfs on 19 February 1861 by Alexander II allowed former serfs to gain wealth and status while some aristocrats were becoming impoverished, unable to tend their