The Cherry Orchard to become – failed shamans, whose magic does not work though it has cost them everything to perform." The Japanese film "Sakura no Sono" (2008) is about a drama group in a girls-only private high school putting on a production of "The Cherry Orchard". It is based on a previous film and a manga of the same name. The play has a role in the comedy film "Henry's Crime" (2011). The Cherry Orchard The Cherry Orchard () is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first published by "Znaniye" (Book Two, 1904), and came
The Seagull "Hamlet"). There are many allusions to Shakespearean plot details as well. For instance, Treplyov seeks to win his mother back from the usurping older man Trigorin much as Hamlet tries to win Queen Gertrude back from his uncle Claudius. "The Seagull" was first translated into English for a performance at the Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, in November 1909. Since that time, there have been numerous translations of the text—from 1998 to 2004 alone there were 25 published versions. In the introduction of his own version, Tom Stoppard wrote: "You can't have too many English Seagulls: at the intersection of all of