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 Cherry Orchard orchard was felled onstage. A production in 1925 at the Oxford Playhouse by J. B. Fagan and a production in 1934 at the Sadler's Wells Theatre in London directed by Tyrone Guthrie and translated by Hubert Butler were among the first English-language productions of the play. A television version featuring Helen Hayes as Ranevskaya, and Susan Strasberg as Anya, directed by Daniel Petrie, was broadcast as part of the "Play of the Week" television series in 1959. A Royal Shakespeare Company/BBC Television version from 1962 was directed by Michael Elliott from Michel Saint-Denis stage production. This features Peggy Ashcroft as