Andrew Hilton at the Neuss Festival in Germany in 2015, 2016 & 2017, and at the Craiova International Festival in Romania in 2016. While Shakespeare has clearly been his main focus, Hilton has attracted high praise for his three Chekhov productions - "Three Sisters", "Uncle Vanya" and "The Cherry Orchard - "and also for his productions of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," Sheridan's "The School for Scandal" and Friel's "Living Quarters". In most of his work Hilton works in collaboration with the playwright, Dominic Power, who edits Shakespeare with him and has also contributed new scenes to "Measure for Measure", "The Changeling,The Taming of
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