The Cherry Orchard the three or four outstanding plays by Chekhov, along with "The Seagull", "Three Sisters", and "Uncle Vanya". The play concerns 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
Cherry Sisters mentioned in "Changing Husbands" (1924), when Leatrice Joy, who wants to become a performer, says she thinks she is so good she can "make Mrs. Fiske look like the Cherry Sisters." The story of the Cherry Sisters is featured as one of the segments in Season 4, Episode 11 of Comedy Central's show "Drunk History". The Cherry Sisters are mentioned in Mae West's "She Done Him Wrong" (1933), when she visits Sing-Sing Prison to see an old flame. The Cherry Sisters was mentioned in an episode of Murdoch Mysteries, season 8, The Keystone Constables. Cherry Sisters The Cherry Sisters –