The Cherry Orchard Ranevskaya, Ian Holm as Trofimov, John Gielgud as Gayev, Judi Dench as Anya, Dorothy Tutin as and Patsy Byrne as Dunyasha. This version has been released on DVD by BBC Worldwide. The Stratford Festival of Canada mounted productions in 1965, 1987 and 1998. The 1965 production was in fact the first time that a Chekhov play had been performed there. Furthermore, "The Cherry Orchard" marked the Stratford directorial debut of John Hirsch. Three of the original Stratford company members were in the cast: William Hutt, playing Gaev; Douglas Campbell, as Lopahin; and William Needles, in the role of Yepihodov; and
How the Devil Married Three Sisters How the Devil Married Three Sisters How the Devil Married Three Sisters is an Italian fairy tale found in Thomas Frederick Crane's "Italian Popular Tales" (1885). It was collected and originally published in German as ""Der Teufel heirathet drei Schwestern"" by Widter and Wolf in 1866. It is classified as Aarne-Thompson tale type 311, "The heroine rescues herself and her sisters". Italo Calvino's retelling, entitled "Silver Nose" in his "Italian Folktales" (1956) is a composite, with its skeletal plot based on a Piedmont version featuring the devil-husband with a silver nose, fleshed out using variants from other localities. The following