Michael Frayn and the TV series "Making Faces", starring Eleanor Bron. He is now considered to be Britain's finest translator of Anton Chekhov ("The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard") as well as an early untitled work, which he titled "Wild Honey" (other translations of the work have called it "Platonov" or "Don Juan in the Russian Manner") and a number of Chekhov's smaller plays for an evening called "The Sneeze" (originally performed on the West End by Rowan Atkinson). He also translated Yuri Trifonov's play "Exchange", Leo Tolstoy's "The Fruits of Enlightenment", and Jean Anouilh's "Number One". In
The Cherry Orchard Varya, whom he refers to as "Madame Lopakhin". She then urges Varya to marry Lopakhin, but Varya demurs, reminding her that it is Lopakhin's duty to ask for her hand in marriage, not the other way around. She says that if she had money she would move as far away from him as possible. Left alone with Ranevskaya, Trofimov insists that she finally face the truth that the house and the cherry orchard will be sold at auction. Ranevskaya shows him a telegram she has received from Paris and reveals that her former lover is ill again and has begged